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

2. What is the name of Riley's uncle?
(a) Junius Candle.
(b) Horace Holton.
(c) Morris Ritz.
(d) Charles Cool.

3. Where did the Judge go to school?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Sewannee.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

4. In what state does the novel take place?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Judge's wife buried?

2. What ethnicity does Catherine claim to be?

3. Who comes to the narrator's house the day after his mother's funeral?

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

5. What is the Judge's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What exposition is revealed about the Judge's education and marriage?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the story behind Riley's parents?

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

8. How does the Judge come to live with his sons?

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

10. What happened to Riley's uncle?

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