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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are said to be in attendance at the exhibition game as Dean throws his first pitch?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,500.

2. With what gesture had Evvie and Andy always ended their weekly breakfasts before Andy began dating Monica seriously?
(a) A kiss.
(b) A hug.
(c) A piggyback ride.
(d) A high-five.

3. Andy arrives at Evvie's house unannounced in Winter: Chapter 18 on what night of the week?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Thursday.

4. On what day of the week do Evvie and Dean travel together to pick up Dean's new pinball machine?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Saturday.

5. Over dinner at the Stafford Hotel, Dean gives Evvie the key to which room in the hotel?
(a) 212.
(b) 216.
(c) 204.
(d) 208.

6. Which character brought Evvie home the night of Tim's death?
(a) Andy.
(b) Kell.
(c) Frank.
(d) Lila.

7. What is NOT listed as a type of pinball machine Dean considers highly undesirable?
(a) Gilligan's Island.
(b) Michael Jordan.
(c) KISS.
(d) Batman.

8. Evvie slams her laptop closed after looking at pictures of two of Dean's ex-girlfriends, who are described as being employed in what positions?
(a) A model and a physicist.
(b) An astronaut and an actress.
(c) A life coach and a dog handler.
(d) An actress and a singer.

9. In what town had Dean been renting a room while playing in the minors when he attended a party at the house with the pinball machine?
(a) Macon.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Albuquerque.

10. How old had Evvie just turned when she first asked her father whether it was her fault that her mother had left them?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

11. Which character in the narrative is dating Monica?
(a) Andy.
(b) Frank.
(c) Tim.
(d) Dean.

12. The baseball glove that Dean gives to Evvie in Spring: Chapter 21 is black and what other color?
(a) Red.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

13. Evvie repeatedly describes Dean's smile as taking up what fraction of his face?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-quarter.
(c) Three-fifths.
(d) One-half.

14. Evvie chooses Dr. Jane Talco as a therapist for Dean in part because her website says that she treats what affliction?
(a) Sports psychology.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Anxiety.

15. Andy tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 18 that he knows it had been whose suitcase in the back of Evvie's car the day of Tim's accident?
(a) Tim's.
(b) Frank's.
(c) Kell's.
(d) Eileen's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sexual partners has Evvie had in total, including her late husband Tim?

2. In Spring: Chapter 26, Evvie reflects upon the fact that once which month arrives, it will have been two years since Tim's death?

3. In Winter: Chapter 13, Andy comes to cheer Dean up after an article in what magazine has focused upon Dean's failures?

4. Dean tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 14 that if he wanted to talk about what subject, he would have stayed in Manhattan?

5. Evvie thinks about a photograph of herself at about age nine in which she is happily engaging in what activity with her father?

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