The Optimist's Daughter Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Optimist's Daughter Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Laurel have dinner with the bridesmaids?
(a) To remember Judge.
(b) To get drunk and party.
(c) To say goodbye.
(d) To remember the good times.

2. How old was Judge when he married Fay?
(a) Almost seventy.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Nearly ninety.
(d) Thirty.

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

4. What is in her mother's desk?
(a) Childhood momentoes, such as report cards.
(b) Pictures of Judge with Fay.
(c) The love letters her mother wrote to her father.
(d) Pictures of her mother and another man.

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

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

7. Where does Laurel believe her home is?
(a) Chicago.
(b) In her father's house.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York.

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

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

10. What did Fay leave unmade before going to New Orleans?
(a) The bed.
(b) A quilt.
(c) A party guest list.
(d) Breakfast.

11. Who wants to move in to the house?
(a) Laurel.
(b) Miss Adele.
(c) Fay's family.
(d) Missouri.

12. Why is the bird attracted to the master bedroom?
(a) There is food in there.
(b) The lights.
(c) It wants out of the house.
(d) It wants to attack Laurel.

13. What did her father's death teach Laurel's mother?
(a) To always remember her yearly medical checkup.
(b) To always know herself.
(c) To know the symtoms of a heart attack.
(d) To never go on vacation alone.

14. What is Laurel looking for in her father's library?
(a) The deed to the house.
(b) Love letters.
(c) The will.
(d) Judge's checkbook.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laurel find in her father's library?

2. How old are most of Laurel's friends' children?

3. What disturbs Laurel during the funeral service?

4. Who called these guests?

5. Where does Laurel find herself trapped after she traps the bird in the upstairs hall?

(see the answer keys)

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