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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 surrounds Main Street?
(a) Mountains.
(b) The prairie.
(c) City streets.
(d) Fields of corn.

2. What is unique about the suit Carol wears in Chapter 9?
(a) It's bright pink.
(b) It's checkered.
(c) It's Chanel.
(d) It's vintage.

3. Where does Carol live following her time at college?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Ripley.
(d) London.

4. Carol raves about her husband to whom, following the Dutch woman's surgery?
(a) Bea.
(b) Vida.
(c) Mrs. Haydock.
(d) Guy Pollock.

5. What depresses Carol about the farmers on the train?
(a) They leer at her.
(b) They seem provincial.
(c) They all read books.
(d) They are drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What man does Carol fantasize about in Chapter 10?

2. What is Carol's relationship to money?

3. How does Carol describe Mr. Dashaway's furniture?

4. What song does a boy on the train play?

5. Carol's article of introduction appears in what publication?

Short Essay Questions

1. Carol goes through a phase where she loves being a housewife. Why?

2. When Dr. and Mrs. Kennicott return home, what is the response?

3. When Carol visits Guy Pollock for the first time, what simple gestures suddenly appear heightened?

4. How does Carol feel about Dr. Kennicott when she first meets him?

5. What makes Carol return to Gopher Prairie for good?

6. What is Hugh's reaction upon Carol's description of what lies ahead for them, outside of Gopher Prairie?

7. In what way does Carol try to convince herself Gopher Prairie is like New York?

8. Describe Carol's time in Washington.

9. When and why do the women at the bridge club decide to accept Carol?

10. When Carol hosts a salon, what is the result?

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