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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Julia Mortimer's will, who must attend her funeral?
(a) Her children.
(b) No one.
(c) Gloria and Jack.
(d) All of her former students.

2. What was the length of the regular school year that Julia Mortimer wished to lengthen?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 7 months.

3. What are the names of the two people who died when their buggy plunged through a hold in the bridge according to Beulah in Part 3?
(a) Etoyle and Elvie.
(b) Euclid and Ellen.
(c) Percy and Ralph.
(d) Ralph and Oscar.

4. What does the family, led by Beulah, do at the end of Part 3?
(a) Dance.
(b) Recite poetry.
(c) Sing.
(d) Yodle.

5. What is the name of the train that delivered Coca-Cola to Curly's store?
(a) The Jackson Sun.
(b) The Great Bam.
(c) The Nashville Rocket.
(d) The Nashua.

6. Who is the person that had been caring for Julia Mortimer for the past few years?
(a) Beulah.
(b) Lexie.
(c) Fay.
(d) Willy.

7. On whose spare tire does Jack say he rode on after escaping jail?
(a) Ralph's.
(b) Nathan's.
(c) Willy Trimble's.
(d) Judge Moody's.

8. Who does Granny Vaughn say she has just been to wake, but has in fact been dead a number of years, in Part 3?
(a) Oscar Moody.
(b) Curly Stovall.
(c) Curtis Beecham.
(d) Sam Dale.

9. How many years could Jack have to spend in jail if he and Gloria are cousins?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

10. What reason does Granny say Jack is like the dead person she tries to wake in Part 3?
(a) They have the same eyes.
(b) Because the girls were sweet on him.
(c) They both had heart.
(d) They have the same hair.

11. Who besides the Moody's does Vaughn return with in the wagon in Part 3?
(a) Jack.
(b) Elvie.
(c) Etoyle.
(d) Ralph.

12. Who eventually walks over and helps Gloria up after she is attacked and force-fed?
(a) Lexie.
(b) Beulah.
(c) Fay.
(d) Nanny.

13. What does Jack carry at the beginning of Part 4 that is stuffed with food for Aycock?
(a) A barrell.
(b) A basket.
(c) A bag.
(d) A syrup bucket.

14. What is Jack's middle name?
(a) James.
(b) Ralph.
(c) Jethro.
(d) Jordan.

15. How many candles are placed on Granny Vaughn's cake?
(a) 20.
(b) 80.
(c) 50.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the flower that looks like a star inside a star that blooms on the porch?

2. Who walks over to the Moody's with a heaped-up platter of food when they first arrive at the reunion?

3. Who decides to pitch a tent in the yard rather than go home after the reunion?

4. What is the name of the song that Nathan plays on his cornet that makes Granny fall asleep?

5. What is the Judge incredulous about regarding the family's treatment of him when he first arrives at the reunion?

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