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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. 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) She is of a different social class than Kate.
(c) She is old and mean.
(d) Harold's wife is very unattractive.

2. Why is it appropriate that John and Kate don't sit down to dinner?
(a) They want to break the rules.
(b) They are being ignored by everyone.
(c) They are not true members of society.
(d) No one wants them to come to dinner.

3. What does John realize about his search for the meaning of his life?
(a) It has given him hope.
(b) It rejeuvenates him.
(c) He enjoys the search.
(d) The search has taken him away from his tidy and ingenious life in Gentiliy.

4. Why is Aunt Emily mad at John?
(a) He is leading Sharon on.
(b) Because he ran off with Kate.
(c) Because he has not been doing well at his job.
(d) He is careless.

5. Who is reluctant to talk about anything religious?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Kate.
(c) Sam.
(d) John's entire family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John flirt with Joyce?

2. What depresses Kate?

3. What does John give up?

4. Do John and Kate marry?

5. What does John assure his siblings of upon Lonnie's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Aunt Emily?

2. What does John reveal to Aunt Emily?

3. What has happened since John last saw Kate?

4. How does the novel end?

5. What does John ask Kate to deliver for him?

6. Why does John think everyone is dead?

7. Does John enjoy seeing Harold?

8. What does John introduce Kate as at the end of his chapter?

9. How does the epilogue begin?

10. What does Kate think the worst that can happen to John is?

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