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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is fired from his job at the plant and eventually becomes a greengrocer at Hurok's Market?
(a) Mama.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Vincenzo.
(d) Papa.

2. Papa does not talk about the two __________ women with whom he lives when he does go into confession.
(a) Murdering.
(b) Deranged.
(c) Lusty.
(d) Loving.

3. What does Thomas want from the Indian cemetery in order to cleanse his brain?
(a) Ashes.
(b) River water.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Flowers.

4. Who refuses to say how he will vote when it comes to Thomas' hearing about his release?
(a) Sheffer.
(b) Dominick.
(c) Patel.
(d) Ralph.

5. Also known as WASPs, this group, ______________, flocks to the ballot box and Papa is blamed for the lost election.
(a) Death Eaters.
(b) Swamp Yankees.
(c) Large Gunners.
(d) Pond Runners.

6. Who does Papa decide that he wants to marry, even though this woman has decided she wants to marry in the American way?
(a) Ignazia.
(b) Prosperine.
(c) Maria.
(d) Trulia.

7. Dessa reveals that she has started to go to __________ again after volunteering at a children's hospice.
(a) Church.
(b) Her family's house.
(c) School
(d) The library.

8. Because Papa was able to stop ____________, he is promoted to a nighttime supervisor at Plant 2.
(a) A mutiny.
(b) Rising costs.
(c) Pay raises.
(d) Unionization.

9. When Dominick finally falls asleep after his long drive, he dreams of unbaptized ____________ trapped under the ice.
(a) Cats.
(b) Men.
(c) Babies.
(d) Mothers.

10. What does Ignazia refuse to attend, even though these are thrown with Papa in mind?
(a) Banquets.
(b) Soccer tournaments.
(c) Plays.
(d) Charity telethons.

11. Papa buys a police dog in order to track _____________ into the woods in order to exact his revenge.
(a) Vincenzo.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Prosperine.
(d) Ignazia.

12. Guglielmo assigns Papa the task of _________________ in order to receive penance for the sins he's committed in his life.
(a) Fifteen rosaries.
(b) Building a river.
(c) Creating a painting.
(d) Writing his memoir.

13. Papa will not let the local priest _________ the girl as she was made from sin, according to his belief.
(a) See.
(b) Baptize.
(c) Bury.
(d) Hold.

14. Why is Ray going to the doctor in the first place? He has some minor _____________ in his legs.
(a) Numbness.
(b) Bleeding.
(c) Cramping.
(d) Pain.

15. Papa writes a letter about the passing of Vincenzo to his mother, only to find out she has died of ____________.
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A broken heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thomas and Dominick have to do in order to go to All Saint's Mass in the morning?

2. Dominick is told that he needs to commit to __________ trial sessions before Patel will take him back on as a patient.

3. Who does Dominick think that he passes when he is driving alone to the painting job?

4. Sheffer and Dominick think that Thomas will not get anything more out of another year at ___________.

5. What does Ray do in response to the way the boys act in church, which Dominick shares with Patel?

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