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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 did Smarsh remember her father letting her do when they visited Betty in the hospital?
(a) Buy flowers at the hospital gift shop.
(b) Walk into the hospital room alone.
(c) Ride in a wheelchair.
(d) Eat in the hospital cafeteria.

2. Why did Betty and Smarsh leave Betty's new house in the middle of the night in Chapter 3?
(a) The water was shut off.
(b) It was infested with cockroaches.
(c) It had a gas leak.
(d) There was no heat.

3. Where did Smarsh's father save coins when she was a child?
(a) In the refrigerator.
(b) In a shoebox.
(c) Under his pillow.
(d) An old whiskey bottle.

4. What did Smarsh's family do one July 4 to make money?
(a) Sold fireworks.
(b) Sold potato pancakes.
(c) Charged admission to their swimming pool.
(d) Sold hot dogs.

5. Who is Smarsh's younger brother?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Robert.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Jeremy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Smarsh's father's name?

2. Which city was Smarsh's family farm 30 miles west of?

3. What is Smarsh's mother's name?

4. Smarsh says the American economy is less like a dream than it is like which of the following?

5. Who was Smarsh's paternal grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part I, what is one of Nick's greatest accomplishments in carpentry?

3. Why does Smarsh love going to church as a child?

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

5. In Part II, how does Smarsh describe her great-grandfather, Aaron, drawing on others' memories?

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

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

8. In Part II, what does Betty become so ill with?

9. In Part I, why was Jeannie considering calling off her wedding to Nick, and what changed her mind?

10. In Part II, what event with small animals greatly upsets Smarsh?

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