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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 rare ailment did Betty have in Chapter 2?
(a) Huntington's Disease.
(b) Legionnaire's Disease.
(c) Lupus.
(d) Histpoplasmosis.

2. What is Smarsh's father's name?
(a) Robert.
(b) Chic.
(c) Arnie.
(d) Nick.

3. What did Jeannie have a knack for as far as home decorating?
(a) Fine art.
(b) Making it look like she had more money than she did.
(c) Sculpture and the use of mirrors.
(d) Using paint wisely.

4. How much money did Boeing once cut a check to Betty's grandmother for?
(a) Twenty-five cents.
(b) Ten cents.
(c) One dollar.
(d) One cent.

5. Which baby animals did Smarsh love in Chapter 2, only to be devastated when they died?
(a) Kittens.
(b) Puppies.
(c) Chipmunks.
(d) Rabbits.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nick lose his pole barn in Chapter 2?

2. Which town did Smarsh begin kindergarten in?

3. When did Betty and Arnie get married?

4. What is the name Smarsh comes up with for her unconceived, unborn daughter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Smarsh define her family's poverty in Part I?

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

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

9. In Part I, what is one main reason Betty says yes when Arnie asks her to dance the first time they meet?

10. What birthday does Smarsh's father have that Smarsh feels is a sort of poetic for him?

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