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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 the community ask Lucy to do?
(a) Organize a hospital fundraiser.
(b) Run for Mayor.
(c) Teach Sunday School.
(d) Volunteer at the soup kitchen.

2. What lie does Ned tell Lucy?
(a) He is staying overnight at a friend's house.
(b) He has been promoted to the next grade.
(c) He is passing every course.
(d) He is going to bed early.

3. What does Lucy plan to do when Will returns from the hunting trip?
(a) Have him arrested.
(b) Go to the hospital.
(c) Make him burn all his guns.
(d) Shoot him.

4. What did Cassie's mother do in the root cellar?
(a) Hanged herself.
(b) Slit her wrist.
(c) Tried to dig a tunnel.
(d) Carved a drawing on the wall.

5. How long does it take Will to return home from Appomattox?
(a) 7 weeks.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 10 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is the commodity in which Will invests?

2. Who takes Ned for his blind training classes?

3. How old is Will when the South loses the war?

4. What does Will give to Lucy when he returns from the hunting trip?

5. Where does Will stay when Lucy tells him to leave the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Will behave when he returns home after Ned's accident?

2. Why does Lucy decide to leave her family and what gives her validation on her decision?

3. How do Will's financial decisions make the family vulnerable?

4. Why is Will not interested in seeing General Lee during the surrender at Appomattox?

5. What role does Will have in the annual parade of the Daughters of the Confederacy in Raleigh?

6. Why would Unison have behaved so mournfully at Prothero's funeral, especially when she did not care for him?

7. What was the fate of Cassie and her parents?

8. Why does Maimie decide to kill herself?

9. How does the author use foreshadowing regarding Ned in this section?

10. What does Lucy do when she learns that Ned has been blinded in a hunting accident?

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