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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Evvie takes extreme exception to her father's sentiment during the Thanksgiving blessing that he is prouder of her for what feat than he is of any one of her other accomplishments?
(a) Graduating from college.
(b) Making it through the death of her husband.
(c) Graduating from high school.
(d) Building a transcription clientele.

2. What color is the suitcase that Evvie retrieves from the hall closet, packs, and puts into her car at the start of the prologue?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

3. What is the name of Andy's youngest daughter?
(a) Monica.
(b) Eileen.
(c) Lilly.
(d) Rose.

4. After Evvie has known Dean for two months, she considers him to listen "like a" (73) what?
(a) Like a journalist.
(b) Like a transcriber.
(c) Like an automaton.
(d) Like a psychiatrist.

5. Lori, the mother of Dean's children, lives in which southern U.S. town?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Macon.
(d) Charleston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Evvie often refers to herself as "a professional eavesdropper" (27), what is her official title?

2. Evvie threatens to take what action against Ellen Boyd if she does not immediately leave Evvie's porch?

3. Which character first floats the idea of Dean renting the apartment at the back of Evvie's house for $800 a month?

4. Evvie remarks that when Dean had first arrived, she had thought that he "listened like a" (73) what?

5. What item does Evvie place into the glove compartment at the start of the prologue entitled First?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the theme of isolation appear within Fall: Chapter 1 of Evvie Drake Starts Over?

2. Name and discuss a second coping mechanism Evvie used to combat the feelings inspired by her unhappy marriage, according to the narrator.

3. What do Evvie's set of dishes with the yellow flowers on them symbolize?

4. Name and discuss one coping mechanism Evvie used to make it through her days during her marriage to Tim.

5. What elements does Evvie name when she tells Dean the topics that concern the citizens of Calcasset?

6. What event is revealed at the end of the prologue to have brought a halt to Evvie's plans?

7. When Dean expresses his appreciation to Evvie at the end of Fall: Chapter 5, what two specific elements does he name?

8. What is revealed to have happened the one time when best friends Andy and Evvie had tried to view one another in a romantic light?

9. Describe Dean's reaction to Evvie's story about the reporter who came by asking about Dean.

10. Discuss an instance when Holmes uses a literary device to comment on the nature of youth.

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