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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Riley pass around to the others in the tree house in Chapter 2?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Bread rolls.
(c) Soda.
(d) Whiskey.

2. Where does Riley's mother go?
(a) An institution.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Africa.

3. Where is the little girl to whom the Judge wrote?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Washington.
(d) Canada.

4. What is one of the things that Dorothy says she has loved?
(a) A record-player.
(b) A hummingbird.
(c) A seashell.
(d) A dried honeycomb.

5. Who is the richest person in the town?
(a) Verena.
(b) Dr. Ritz.
(c) Horace Holton.
(d) Uriah.

6. What kind of grass blows in the grass harp?
(a) Indian grass.
(b) Reed grass.
(c) Moss grass.
(d) Crimson grass.

7. What is Riley hunting in the woods in Chapter 2?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Elk.
(c) Deer.
(d) Birds.

8. What ethnicity does Catherine claim to be?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) African American.
(c) White.
(d) American Indian.

9. What is the only meat that Dolly likes?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Squirrel.
(c) Chicken brain.
(d) Rabbit.

10. What does the Judge recall Dolly not having as a child?
(a) Hair.
(b) A sister.
(c) Decent clothes.
(d) Shoes.

11. Whose esteem does the Judge not enjoy?
(a) His wife's.
(b) His sons'.
(c) His daughters'.
(d) His father's.

12. What does Catherine refer to Verena as?
(a) The Old Bat.
(b) The Devil.
(c) That One.
(d) The Spinster.

13. What is Catherine's last name?
(a) Fenwick.
(b) Creek.
(c) Talbo.
(d) Holdon.

14. What does Catherine wear "that would put out your eyes?"
(a) Eyeliner.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Rouge.
(d) Eyeshadow.

15. How old is the Judge in the picture he sent to the girl in his letters?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Riley's last name?

2. How old is the young girl to whom the Judge wrote?

3. Who says, "I'm no man with a dozen faces; the notion"?

4. What does the Judge call Dorothy fondly in Chapter 3?

5. How old is the narrator when he goes to stay with his father's cousins?

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