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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 is the name of the grocery store in the town owned by Verena?
(a) Jitney Jungle.
(b) Verena's Grocery.
(c) Sunshine Grocery.
(d) Talbo Grocery.

2. What is scattered about the house boat?
(a) Adventure magazines.
(b) Women's magazines.
(c) Fishing magazines.
(d) Hunting magazines.

3. What is the last name of the couple who owns the town bakery?
(a) Holton.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Henderson.
(d) County.

4. How does the narrator catch the fish?
(a) Bare-handed.
(b) With a knife.
(c) With a reed.
(d) With a fishing pole.

5. What kind of fish do the narrator and Riley catch?
(a) Trout.
(b) Mackerel.
(c) Crawfish.
(d) Catfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is known in the town as the biggest gossip?

2. What does Riley whip his sisters with?

3. Who says, "I've envied you always. Come home, Dolly. Leave decisions to me: that, you see, has been my life"?

4. Where does Dolly take Verena in Chapter 6?

5. What kind of car does Riley drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Riley overhear outside the jailhouse in Chapter 4?

2. What does Dolly tell Verena about shame in Chapter 6?

3. What happens when Collin and Riley return to the tree house in Chapter 4?

4. What internal conflict does Dolly face at the end of Chapter 5?

5. What unexpected characters does the narrator make note of who appear at the tree in Chapter 6?

6. What news and provisions does Riley return with in Chapter 4?

7. What does Little Homer take out in Chapter 6? What does he proceed to do with it?

8. What does Riley respond to Sister Ida's asking for Dolly's location? What does he relate to the narrator about her?

9. What does the barber relate to Riley in Chapter 5?

10. Where do Collin and Riley go in Chapter 5? Why?

(see the answer keys)

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