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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. 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?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. 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) Building a transcription clientele.
(b) Graduating from high school.
(c) Making it through the death of her husband.
(d) Graduating from college.

3. In what decade was the term used to describe Dean's affliction coined, according to the narrator?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1970s.

4. In what gesture do Evvie and Dean engage after he expresses his gratitude for the way she had stood up to the woman on the porch?
(a) A shrug.
(b) A high-five.
(c) A hug.
(d) A fist-bump.

5. The issue of Sports Illustrated at which Evvie glances in Fall: Chapter 1 is addressed to which character?
(a) Monica.
(b) Evvie.
(c) Tim.
(d) Andy.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what location does Dean first go when he arrives in Calcasset, Maine?

2. What is Evvie's legal first name?

3. Which character meets Evvie in the parking lot on the day of the tree-planting ceremony celebrating Tim's life?

4. What color is the suitcase that Evvie retrieves from the hall closet, packs, and puts into her car at the start of the prologue?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what major change is Evvie preparing when the reader first meets her in the prologue entitled First?

2. What advice does Dean give to Evvie when she is angry about her father's Thanksgiving day comment?

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

4. What does Evvie mean when she thinks about semicolons in relation to Dean's speech?

5. What agreement do Evvie and Dean make at the end of Fall: Chapter 4?

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

7. Discuss an instance when Tim's actions resulted in trauma to Evvie.

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

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

10. How does Holmes weave together issues of class with issues of domestic abuse?

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