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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. According to Evvie, the townspeople saw her as someone who "had gone directly from lobsterman's daughter to" (44) what?
(a) Fishmonger's wife.
(b) Orphan.
(c) Doctor's wife.
(d) Easy Street.

2. Dean and Evvie agree that Maine is "the oldest and" most what "state in the country" (71)?
(a) Coldest.
(b) Richest.
(c) Whitest.
(d) Most backwards.

3. Evvie recalls a time in her youth when she had been stranded in the rain and which character had given her a ride?
(a) Tim.
(b) Frank.
(c) Andy.
(d) Eileen.

4. Who calls Evvie in the prologue to tell her that Tim has been in a severe car accident?
(a) Tim's mother.
(b) Tim.
(c) A nurse.
(d) Evvie's mother.

5. Which character meets Evvie in the parking lot on the day of the tree-planting ceremony celebrating Tim's life?
(a) Dean.
(b) Frank.
(c) Andy.
(d) Monica.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dean tells Andy that he had seen how many sports psychologists in total in an effort to regain his skills in the sport of baseball?

2. In what decade was the term used to describe Dean's affliction coined, according to the narrator?

3. Which idiom-laden phrase does Evvie use to describe what had happened the one time Andy and Evvie had "earnestly tried to look meaningfully at each other" (17)?

4. In Fall: Chapter 4, when Dean moves into the apartment attached to Evvie's house, she tells him that she and Tim had gotten married and moved into the house how many years before?

5. What event marks the first breach of the pact between Evvie and Dean?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What object does Evvie place on the mantel just before she opens the door to meet Dean and what is the object's significance?

3. Which comment of Frank's makes Evvie furious during Thanksgiving dinner and why?

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

5. How did Dean end up attending Cornell, according to him?

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

7. What major secret is Evvie keeping from her best friend Andy?

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

9. 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?

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

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