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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fay react to her family's arrival?
(a) Fay is happy, she has not seen her family in years.
(b) Fay is annoyed because she told everyone she had no family.
(c) Fay is relieved to have someone there to comfort her.
(d) Fay is angry no one told her they were coming.

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

3. Who do the women blame for Judge marrying Fay?
(a) Miss Adele.
(b) Laurel.
(c) Judge's first wife.
(d) Themselves.

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

5. Who do they women think Fay takes after?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Judge's first wife.
(c) Judge.
(d) Laurel.

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

7. Where does Fay decide to go?
(a) California.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Texas.
(d) New York.

8. What color paint does Laurel find on her father's desk?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

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

10. What do the old women ask Laurel not to do?
(a) Bake bread.
(b) Find the will.
(c) Go back to Chicago.
(d) Work in the garden.

11. Where does Laurel find herself trapped after she traps the bird in the upstairs hall?
(a) The master bedroom.
(b) Her childhood bedroom.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The garage.

12. Where did the paint come from?
(a) Judge's model airplanes.
(b) From a painting that did not dry properly.
(c) From a remodeling job completed the year before.
(d) Fay's fingernail polish.

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

14. How did Judge react to conflict at home?
(a) He enjoyed it.
(b) He blamed his wife for it.
(c) He ignored it.
(d) He caused it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who walks Laurel home?

2. How many birds are in the house?

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

4. What did Fay leave unmade before going to New Orleans?

5. Why does Fay want to go to Texas?

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