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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fay take with her?
(a) The china.
(b) Judge's checkbook.
(c) The will.
(d) A Virginia ham.

2. What does Laurel find in the small sewing room attached to her parents room?
(a) Old sewing projects.
(b) Old photo albums.
(c) Pictures of Fay with another man.
(d) Her mother's desk.

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

4. What does the absence of the letters symbolize to Laurel?
(a) Fay's interference in Judge's life.
(b) Her father's attempts to hide that part of his life from Fay.
(c) The death of her mother.
(d) Judge's lack of emotion for his first wife.

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

6. How did Laurel's grandfather die?
(a) His appendix burst.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Stroke.

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

8. What does Laurel do when she sees what is in the house?
(a) She shuts all the windows and the upstairs doors.
(b) She hides in the garage.
(c) She calls the police.
(d) She goes and gets Major Bullock.

9. What does Laurel hope is in bloom at her mother's grave?
(a) Roses.
(b) Hibiscus.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Camelia.

10. Where do the unexpected guests come from?
(a) Illinois.
(b) California.
(c) Texas.
(d) New York.

11. Who do the bridesmaids remember over dinner?
(a) Judge and his first wife.
(b) Laurel's husband.
(c) Their own children.
(d) Childhood friends.

12. Who remains in the house?
(a) Laurel.
(b) Miss Adele.
(c) Major Bullock.
(d) Fay.

13. Where does the bird come from?
(a) The garage.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The kitchen.

14. Why does Fay's mother pity Laurel?
(a) She knows Laurel is a widow and worries her father's death has brought back too many memories.
(b) She knows Laurel dislikes Fay.
(c) She believes no one is there to support and comfort Laurel.
(d) She feels bad that Laurel is now an orphan.

15. What is Laurel doing when the neighbors come over?
(a) Reading.
(b) Cleaning out closets.
(c) Baking.
(d) Working in her father's garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Laurel believe her home is?

2. What does Fay not do?

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

4. Who do they women think Fay takes after?

5. Where did the paint come from?

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