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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is suggested Fay do with the house?
(a) Turn it into a motel.
(b) Turn it into a boarding house.
(c) Sell it.
(d) Turn it into a restaurant.

2. Why would Judge want to keep evidence of his first wife from Fay?
(a) To protect Fay from Judge's continuing feelings for his first wife.
(b) To keep Fay from getting jealous.
(c) To keep Fay from destroying them.
(d) To keep those memories sacred.

3. How does Laurel feel about her father's things?
(a) They are worth a great deal of money.
(b) They are comforting and familiar.
(c) They are old fashioned and useless.
(d) They are a nuisance.

4. Who discusses Judge's estate?
(a) Fay's mother.
(b) Fay.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Laurel.

5. What does Laurel find in the house when she returns?
(a) A burglar.
(b) A dog.
(c) A bird.
(d) A wild boar.

6. What does Major Bullock do before leaving Laurel?
(a) Chases off a burglar.
(b) Reminds her to stop by to say goodbye before she leaves town.
(c) Turns on the lights in the house.
(d) Asks if Laurel has found her father's will.

7. What does Laurel remember about her mother as she prepared to go into the hospital?
(a) That she put on makeup.
(b) That she was a hypochondriac.
(c) That she dismissed her medical problems as trival.
(d) That she was frightened.

8. What disturbs Laurel during the funeral service?
(a) A woodchuck peeking up under the coffin.
(b) Fay's crying.
(c) The noises from the new interstate.
(d) A mosquito.

9. Who does Laurel have dinner with in Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) Fay.
(b) The bridesmaids.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Miss Adele.

10. Who is the portrait of hanging in Judge's library?
(a) His Union father.
(b) Judge himself.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) His Confederate father.

11. Who does Laurel hope to never see again?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Fay's mother.
(c) Fay.
(d) The bridesmaids.

12. What does everyone assume Fay will inherit?
(a) The house.
(b) The law practice.
(c) A car.
(d) A boat.

13. Where did Judge eat on Sundays?
(a) Laurel's.
(b) At home.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Major Bullock's.

14. What does Laurel hope to find in Judge's library besides her mother's letters?
(a) Anything that would explain her father more clearly to her.
(b) The will.
(c) Speeches he wrote when he was mayor.
(d) Proof that he was her father.

15. Where is Laurel trapped?
(a) Her childhood bedroom.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The kitchen..
(d) Her parents bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laurel looking for in her father's library?

2. Where did the paint come from?

3. Who wants to move in to the house?

4. What does Laurel hope is in bloom at her mother's grave?

5. Who remains in the house?

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