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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. Where does Dolly admit to Helen that she had been intimate with Milton?
(a) At Peyton's birthday party at the club.
(b) At a football game.
(c) After a School Board meeting.
(d) After church.

2. Why does the person in #100 have an emotional outburst?
(a) Peyton is being buried today.
(b) She is not allowed to drive the car.
(c) She has broken up with her boyfriend.
(d) She wants more attention from her mother.

3. Where will Helen's brother be going after his visit with her family?
(a) Seminary.
(b) College.
(c) London.
(d) War.

4. Where does Carey Carr take Helen at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) School Board meeting.
(b) Ladies luncheon.
(c) Church.
(d) The funeral home.

5. Who is Peyton's husband?
(a) Barry Miller.
(b) Marc Goldberg.
(c) Harry Miller.
(d) Harold Lyons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dolly's ex-husband living at this time?

2. What are Milton's feelings about his marriage to Helen?

3. What is Carey's first impression of Helen?

4. Carey recalls that after Maudie's death, Helen and Milton ____________________.

5. Helen tells Carey that she no longer believes in ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Carey and Milton talk about while waiting in the roadhouse for the hearse to be repaired?

2. What does Milton remember about the Christmas of 1941?

3. Why is Helen so angry with Peyton and Milton on Peyton's wedding day?

4. How does the author show that Milton has inappropriate feelings for Peyton?

5. What is the significance of the characters coming closer to the cemetery?

6. Does Helen seek out Carey for her belief in God or something else?

7. Why does Carey find it difficult to minister to Helen?

8. Who does Helen blame for Maudie's death?

9. In addition to the other parent/child relationships in the novel, how does Carey Carr's personal story fit in?

10. What is the perception of the Southern wedding guests toward Harry?

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