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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. In Chapter 2, what life-threatening occurrences befell Smarsh many times?
(a) Lightening strikes.
(b) Falls from cliffs.
(c) Car wrecks.
(d) Near-drownings.

2. Who was the man who became Smarsh's step-grandfather?
(a) Conner.
(b) Nicky.
(c) Arnie.
(d) Bob.

3. Smarsh says the American economy is less like a dream than it is like which of the following?
(a) A bed of flowers.
(b) An inconsistent god.
(c) A race.
(d) A restaurant meal.

4. What hit song did Smarsh like to sing along on the radio to that Jeannie did not like?
(a) Stand By Your Man.
(b) Coal Miner's Daughter.
(c) Trashy Women.
(d) Witchy Woman.

5. Smarsh once read that what you do not transmute, you do which of the following with?
(a) Transmit.
(b) Kill.
(c) Bury.
(d) Tell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Smarsh's mother ask her to do when she used to lie in bed with her mother sometimes?

2. How long did Smarsh research this book for?

3. When did Betty and Arnie get married?

4. What did Smarsh's grandfather carve the year she was born?

5. What did Smarsh's family think about insurance for property?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part I, what do Smarsh's parents do around the Fourth of July to make a significant amount of money?

2. What skill did Jeannie and Nick both have in common?

3. Why does Smarsh address her child that has never been conceived or born as "August?"

4. In Part I, what happens with Jeannie that Betty takes to heart because she thinks it symbolizes her failures as a mother?

5. How does Nick's pole barn burn down?

6. How does Nick become so sick in Part II?

7. What are Smarsh's memories of her father Nick like from childhood?

8. In Part I, what is the one fact of Smarsh's family history she thinks most significantly shaped her relationship to August?

9. How do Smarsh's parents, Jeannie and Nick, meet?

10. In Part I, what happens shortly after the birth of Smarsh's brother that upsets and weights on Jeannie?

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