View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Riley when he comes to live in the town?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Five.

2. Who has been the Judge's one true friend?
(a) Carper.
(b) Horace.
(c) Julius.
(d) Ralph.

3. What is the name of the man who writes Catherine to ask her to marry him?
(a) George.
(b) John.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Bill.

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

5. What is the father's name of the sisters with whom the narrator went to live?
(a) Junius.
(b) Uriah.
(c) Horace.
(d) Riley.

6. Where do Maudie and her husband go on their honeymoon?
(a) The Grand Canyon.
(b) The French Riviera.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Canada.

7. Who comes to the narrator's house the day after his mother's funeral?
(a) Dolly.
(b) Verena.
(c) Riley.
(d) Junius.

8. Who says, "But Judge, I'm not sure I know what it is you have in mind we should tell each other. Secrets?"
(a) Riley.
(b) Dolly.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Collin.

9. What does the Judge refer to their group as in Chapter 3?
(a) Five birds.
(b) Five strangers.
(c) Five fools in a tree.
(d) Five lost souls.

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

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

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

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

14. What is Riley's last name?
(a) Williams.
(b) Holton.
(c) Henderson.
(d) Jackson.

15. Who tells the Judge in Chapter 2, "If you weren't so old, I'd damn well knock you down"?
(a) Collin.
(b) Horace.
(c) Riley.
(d) Junius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the man who asked Catherine to marry him?

2. Who teaches Catherine how to make her secret potion?

3. Where is the girl from that Riley says he's been dating for over a year?

4. Who says, "I don't believe in locking drawers--seems strange a man can't live without keys in what was at least once his own house"?

5. Which character has begun to weep at the beginning of Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 348 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample