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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 are the main exports of Bolton?
(a) Sugar beets and Black manual labor.
(b) Sorghum and Black manual labor.
(c) Tobacco and Black manual labor.
(d) Lumber and Black manual labor.

2. Who sits next to the Author as the plane leaves San Francisco?
(a) White man.
(b) Black man.
(c) Middle Eastern man.
(d) Hawaiian man.

3. How was the house heated where the Author lived when he was nine?
(a) Furnace.
(b) Wood-burning heater.
(c) Hot-water heat.
(d) Fireplace.

4. How did the Author's father die?
(a) Shot by the police.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Cancer.

5. Where does the cop live who shot William?
(a) Cherryville.
(b) Lumberton.
(c) Polkton.
(d) Apex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the minister people question about William's death?

2. When did Kelly decide she wanted to be an undertaker?

3. After the Author autographs his book for a flight attendant from Tulsa, who asks him to autograph another book?

4. What does Kelly drive when she takes the Author to the airport?

5. What emotion does the minister in Bolton say he has had all his life on page 244?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Author tell the Kid when he has the Talk with him?

2. What does the Author do after Kelly?

3. How does watching Kelly work affect the Author, and why does he leave suddenly?

4. What does Soot see and feel when his father dies?

5. Why did the Author never fit in Bolton?

6. What is the Kid's favorite animal and why?

7. Who asks the Author to autograph a book somewhere over West Texas, and what does he say about the fear that the Author has?

8. What do the Author and the Kid do when they go to Pennsylvania?

9. How does the Author describe the scene as he and Sharon walk to the Bolton Town Hall?

10. How did Kelly decide to become an undertaker?

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