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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the Minister's wife?
(a) Thelma.
(b) Hester.
(c) Verna.
(d) Selma.

5. What is Dolly's potion made to cure?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Dropsy.
(c) Diphtheria.
(d) Emphysema.

6. What is the name of the narrator's father?
(a) Horace.
(b) Michael.
(c) Eugene.
(d) Christopher.

7. What does the girl from the Judge's letters send him when he tells her he is going to law school?
(a) A silver coin.
(b) A gold nugget.
(c) A rabbit's foot.
(d) A lucky pebble.

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

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

10. What does the sheriff go on to become?
(a) A senator.
(b) A mayor.
(c) A governor.
(d) A president.

11. Where is the girl from that Riley says he's been dating for over a year?
(a) Slidell.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Houma.
(d) Rolling Rock.

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

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

14. What color is Dolly's room painted?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Pink.

15. Who used to deliver the papers?
(a) Sal Rosewater.
(b) Paul Jimson.
(c) John Lambert.
(d) John Tilly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the character whom Verena had been attached to and heartbroken by?

2. Where is the Judge's wife buried?

3. How many bottles of the potion do they produce a week?

4. What does Riley pass around to the others in the tree house in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator spy upon Dolly writing in her room?

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