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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. What color is the car that Riley drives?
(a) Black.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

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

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

4. How old is the character of Catherine?
(a) About forty.
(b) About sixty.
(c) About fifty.
(d) About seventy.

5. What is the Judge's last name?
(a) Cool.
(b) Henderson.
(c) Holton.
(d) Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Riley's uncle hold in the town?

2. What is Catherine's last name?

3. Who says, "How could you care about one girl? Have you ever cared about one leaf?"

4. Where does Riley's uncle go?

5. What kind of cemetery is near the China tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dolly declare about love in Chapter 3?

2. What is Dolly's story with the gypsy women?

3. What is the group's first interaction with Riley in Chapter 2?

4. What happened to Riley's uncle?

5. Who packs the narrator's belongings in Chapter 1? How does he end up staying at the Talbo house indefinitely?

6. Why do Catherine and Dolly go into the woods once a week?

7. How does the narrator's father feel about Verena and Dolly? How does the narrator come to live with them?

8. What does the tree house gang do while the buzz is going on in the town in Chapter 2?

9. What causes Verena's interest in the dropsy cure?

10. What positions do the sisters whom the narrator lives with have in the town/home? Whom does the narrator gravitate toward of the two?

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