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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 does Carol wish for at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) Good spirits.
(b) Children.
(c) A lover.
(d) Money.

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

3. How long does it take Carol to walk the town?
(a) 32 minutes.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) The day.

4. What vice of Dr. Kennicott's does Carol despise?
(a) Womanizing.
(b) Chewing tobacco.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Drinking.

5. During the winter, after shopping, what does Carol do on the city streets that shocks the town?
(a) She gallops and whoops.
(b) She kisses a stranger.
(c) She sings.
(d) She doesn't wear a coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has the Village Virus?

2. What is the Thantopsis?

3. If farmers controlled Dr. Kennicott's rate, he's concerned they'd do what?

4. How does The Red Swede make money in the spring?

5. Where do Carol and Dr. Kennicott purchase a summer home?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Carol visits Minneapolis, she is worried that the porter at the hotel thinks she is what? Why is this significant?

2. When Miles leaves town, what does he do and how does the town react?

3. Why does Carol choose not to plan for a new home?

4. How does Carol react to the poem Erik writes for her?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what does Carol worry about, in terms of her relationships in the town?

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

7. Why is Vida interested in Raymie?

8. Why does Dr. Kennicott want Carol to shop at a different grocery store than the one she has been using? How does she feel about this?

9. What influence does Carol feel a doctor should exercise in his community?

10. Why does Carol start a dramatic society?

(see the answer keys)

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