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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 effect does the talk with Aunt Emily have on John's life?
(a) He wants to be a better man.
(b) He feels angry with himself.
(c) None, he ignores her.
(d) It wakes him up.

2. Why does Kate think that Harold's wife is strange?
(a) She does not perform the typical housewife duties that other Southern women do.
(b) Harold's wife is very unattractive.
(c) She is old and mean.
(d) She is of a different social class than Kate.

3. What does John assure his siblings of upon Lonnie's death?
(a) Lonnie is rotting in hell.
(b) Lonnie is not really dead.
(c) That he is water-skiing in heaven.
(d) John will take care of all of them.

4. How does Sam make John feel?
(a) Sad about his life.
(b) Sam makes John physically ill.
(c) Very happy.
(d) Very successful.

5. What does John really want to do with his life?
(a) Leave Louisiana.
(b) Become a recluse.
(c) Travel abroad.
(d) Find his own unique personal goals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John see everyone as dead?

2. Who does John call instead of Kate?

3. What does Kate call John?

4. What does Aunt Emily ask John about?

5. Where will John go to appease his aunt?

Short Essay Questions

1. When John talks to Kate, what does she say she was really trying to do?

2. Who is waiting for John when he arrives at Aunt Emily's house?

3. What does Aunt Emily ask of John?

4. What is Kate's test after Lonnie dies?

5. How does the novel end?

6. How does Kate react to the test?

7. Why is Aunt Emily upset with John at the beginning of the chapter?

8. How does John treat Kate?

9. What does the reader learn about Aunt Emily?

10. Why doesn't Kate like Harold's wife?

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