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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the river that runs through Banner?

2. What does Curly tell Jack that Mr. Renfro gave him Jack's truck to pay for?

3. What does Gloria tell Jack to do just after he greets everyone at the reunion?

4. What is the name of the person Jack helped pull a car out of a ditch for?

5. What is the name of the schoolteacher in the town as told in Part 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Jack after Curly punches him and knocks him out in Part 6?

2. What does Judge Moody say after admitting he had Julia Mortimer's letter for a month?

3. How does Willy Trimble say Julia Mortimer died?

4. What happens when the second tire on Moody's car blows out?

5. How is the Renfro Bible described and used in Part 3?

6. What does Uncle Homer do when he passes Jack trying to help the Moody's retrieve their car?

7. How does Gloria react after Granny Vaughn shows a picture of Sam Dale with a note on the back from her Bible?

8. How does Gloria describe the last time she went to visit Julia Mortimer?

9. What reason does Beulah give the family to prove that Sam Dale couldn't be Gloria's father?

10. What is the nature of the family picture Beulah brings out of the whole family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the author's use of aggression in the book. What reason does she have for using this method?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of religion in the book. What does religion represent to the book's characters? How does the family's treatment of religion suggest their hypocrisy?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the portrayal of loyalty in the book. What might being loyal represent to the book's characters?

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