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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who called these guests?
(a) Major Bullock.
(b) Miss Adele.
(c) Laurel.
(d) Fay.

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

3. Who do the women hope does not inherit the house?
(a) Miss Adele.
(b) Fay.
(c) Major Bullock.
(d) Laurel.

4. Who was the optimist?
(a) Judge .
(b) Fay.
(c) Laurel's mother.
(d) Laurel.

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

6. Why does Fay want to go to Texas?
(a) To bury Judge.
(b) To be with her familiy.
(c) To visit an old boyfriend.
(d) To go to a spa.

7. Where is Judge buried?
(a) In New Orleans.
(b) In Chicago.
(c) Beside Laurel's mother.
(d) In the new section of the cemetery.

8. What does Fay do when she sees Judge?
(a) Fay apologizes to Judge for being difficult.
(b) Fay ignores Judge's coffin altogether.
(c) Fay declares her love for Judge.
(d) Fay demands Judge get out of the coffin.

9. Where does Laurel believe her father will be buried?
(a) Beside her mother.
(b) In Chicago.
(c) In the new section of the cemetery.
(d) In New Orleans.

10. What does the pain symbolize to Laurel?
(a) Valentines.
(b) Fay's imprint on everything in Judge's life.
(c) Blood.
(d) Judge's death.

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

12. Where is Laurel's mother from?
(a) New York.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

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

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

15. How many birds are in the house?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two .

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Laurel have dinner with the bridesmaids?

2. What is suggested Fay do with the house?

3. Who does Laurel have dinner with in Part 3, Chapter 3?

4. Where did the paint come from?

5. What is in her mother's desk?

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