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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 do Del and Mary Agnes discover along the riverbank?
(a) Skinnydippers
(b) A dead cow
(c) A dead body
(d) Dead fish

2. What does Del's mother do in an attempt to develop a social life?
(a) Hosts a ladies' party
(b) Joins the Garden Club
(c) Joins a sorority
(d) Volunteers at the museum

3. Which of the following is not present in Del's aunts' home?
(a) Intricate formality
(b) Compassion for those less fortunate
(c) Unkind jabs disguised as jokes
(d) Double ententre

4. What does Aunt Moira call Del?
(a) A jewel
(b) An angel
(c) A mad dog
(d) A lunatic

5. What reality about Uncle Benny does Del try to understand?
(a) He has had an affair
(b) He is moving away
(c) His marriage has failed
(d) He is sometimes cruel

Short Answer Questions

1. Del is asked to recall on cue information such as the names of the American presidents or _______________________.

2. What is the name of the town where Del's family lives on the outskirts?

3. Which of the following does not bother Del about Major's having to be put down?

4. Del's mother denounces religion and _______________________________.

5. Why does Benny drive to Ketchener?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is especially troubling for Del about the plan to kill Major?

2. Whatever happens to the turtle soup?

3. What is Del's mother's occupation in this chapter?

4. What does Del relate about fishing with her Uncle Benny and her brother, Owen?

5. How does the story begin?

6. What is Del's favorite of Benny's possessions?

7. What object of Uncle Craig's do Del's aunts give to her after his death?

8. Who is Mary Agnes?

9. What is Owen's idea to help save Major?

10. What is the fate of Uncle Craig's manuscript?

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