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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. Who is the dominant force in the Gant home?
(a) Helen
(b) Steve
(c) Eugene
(d) Oliver

2. What happens in Part 2, Chapter 25?
(a) World War II starts
(b) World War I starts
(c) The Civil War starts
(d) The Hundred Years War starts

3. Who is Eugene Gant?
(a) Oliver's brother
(b) Eliza's child by Oliver's brother
(c) Another name for Steve Gant
(d) Oliver and Eliza's youngest child

4. What social campaign does Gant join?
(a) Liquor by the drink campaign
(b) Civil rights campaign
(c) Anti immigrant campaign
(d) Temperance campaign

5. What does Oliver threaten to do to Eliza?
(a) Leave her
(b) Have her arrested
(c) Kill her
(d) Send back to her family

Short Answer Questions

1. Who continues to emerge as a real inspiration to Eugene?

2. What does Oliver sell to Eliza?

3. What is Eugene's principal's name?

4. What is true about food in the Gant home?

5. Ben gets a physical, what is the result?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Gant family is quite dysfunctional how do you think this issue is reflected in the lives of the children?

2. Why do you think it is significant that both of Eugene's parents attend his graduation?

3. Gant has many bad traits, but he also does some good things in this story. Describe some of the good things he brings to the family.

4. Why do you think Eugene went to his father to get money for his trip to Virginia?

5. Gant moves to Altamont and meets Eliza Pentland, how does this change his life?

6. Explain why you think Ben will not allow Eliza in his room when he is so ill?

7. What do you think is the significance of Ben's abrupt disappearance in the final chapter?

8. Briefly explain the role of travel in the lives of the Gant family.

9. Why do you think Eugene does not tell the Leonards about his job as a paper boy?

10. Describe the effect going to the Leonard's school has on Eugene.

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