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

2. What does Catherine wear "that would put out your eyes?"
(a) Eyeliner.
(b) Eyeshadow.
(c) Dresses.
(d) Rouge.

3. How old is Dolly?
(a) Fifty-five.
(b) Fourty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Fifty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine refer to Verena as?

2. What is the name of Riley's sister who is in the protagonist's class in school?

3. What does the sheriff go on to become?

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

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 happens at the end of Chapter 2?

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

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

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

5. What "secret" does Catherine reveal in Chapter 3?

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

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

8. How does the Judge counsel Riley in Chapter 3?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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