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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) Sell it.
(c) Turn it into a boarding house.
(d) Turn it into a restaurant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who would legally inherit the house if there is no will?
(a) Miss Adele.
(b) Fay.
(c) Laurel.
(d) Missouri.

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

11. What does Laurel find in her father's library?
(a) The will.
(b) Love letters.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Speeches from when he was mayor.

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

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

14. How old are most of Laurel's friends' children?
(a) Toddlers.
(b) Teenagers.
(c) College age.
(d) Grammar school aged.

15. Why do the old women dislike Fay?
(a) She made Judge unhappy.
(b) She will not gossip with them.
(c) She does not take care of the house.
(d) She is shallow and unkind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is it suggested would do the cooking in the house?

2. What does Major Bullock do before leaving Laurel?

3. Where does the bird come from?

4. Who are the surprised guests who arrive at the house the morning of the funeral?

5. What does Laurel find in the house when she returns?

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