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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. The card written by the schoolboy claims that _____________________ is his favorite book.
(a) Lord of the Flies.
(b) Catcher in the Rye.
(c) The Last of the Mohicans.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

2. In a flashback, Murray recalls a man named ______________ who came to Murray's store looking for work clothes.
(a) Vance.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Vernon.
(d) Victor.

3. Which of the following is NOT something that the narrator's mother once thought about Flora?
(a) She was a troublemaker.
(b) She was noble.
(c) She was stoic.
(d) She was optimistic.

4. Who is the housekeeper at Jack's aunt's house?
(a) Jamie.
(b) Joanne.
(c) Jillie.
(d) Judy.

5. Who had been Ellie's nurse?
(a) Millie Frantz.
(b) Audrey Atkinson.
(c) Marlene Winner.
(d) Aimee Anders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Almeda do when she sees the person slumped against her fence?

2. How did Murray meet his wife?

3. Brenda's lover tells her about a/an _______________ family which moved to his hometown.

4. Why was the man in #79 afraid of his wife?

5. What is Almeda's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Almeda realize that she has been approaching life all wrong, and how does she see violence symbolized in her life?

2. What does Murray suspect that Victor and Barbara are doing and under what circumstances does Victor leave for good?

3. What awakens Almeda in the night and what does she do about the disruption?

4. Who was Victor and how did he come into Murray and Barbara's life?

5. Who is Flora Grieves, and how did the narrator's mother know her?

6. What is life like for women in Almeda's town?

7. Why has Hazel decided to travel to a town in Scotland and who does she meet right away when she arrives?

8. What are Brenda's conflicting feelings about the fight with Neil?

9. How does the episode with the woman's body in front of Almeda's house change Jarvis' perspective of Almeda?

10. What are some of the possible lies in the story?

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