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

2. Where had the Judge's wife been from?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Louisville.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Memphis.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the character of Catherine?

2. How old is Riley when he comes to live in the town?

3. What is one of the things that Dorothy says she has loved?

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

5. Who says, "But Judge, I'm not sure I know what it is you have in mind we should tell each other. Secrets?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Catherine's take on love in Chapter 3? How does her comment change the conversation?

2. What events lead up to the departure of Dolly, Catherine, and Collin for the tree house?

3. What does the Judge make of Dolly in Chapter 3?

4. What is Riley's confession in Chapter 3?

5. What happens at the end of Chapter 2?

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

7. How does the law get involved in the matter between Dolly and Verena?

8. What does the Judge speak of regarding trust in Chapter 3?

9. Who tells the narrator about the grass harp? What is it?

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

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