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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What upsets Fay when she returns home from meeting with the funeral director?
(a) The excessive food in her kitchen. She is diabetiic.
(b) The number of people in her house for Laurel.
(c) The number of people in her house she does not know.
(d) The excessive food in her kitchen. She is on a diet.

2. Why is Laurel upset that Fay wants the coffin to be open?
(a) Laurel does not believe their friends would want to see Judge in the coffin.
(b) Laurel does not like the way her father looks.
(c) Laurel does not want to see her father.
(d) Laurel does not believe her father would have wanted an open coffin.

3. What is Fay's mood as they wait for Judge to return from surgery?
(a) She is worried about Judge.
(b) She is happy Judge is getting the treatment he needs.
(c) Annoyed that she is in New Orleans but stuck in a hospital room.
(d) She is worried about the cost of the hospital bill.

4. What does Fay do when Laurel tells her Judge might be dying?
(a) Fay faints.
(b) Fay spits on Laurel.
(c) Fay laughs.
(d) Fay becomes hysterical with grief.

5. What does Miss Adele say about death?
(a) People cannot avoid death.
(b) People live their own way and die their own way.
(c) Death is something to look forward to.
(d) Death is painful and unfair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Laurel put Miss Adele's gift?

2. How do Fay and Laurel travel back to Mississippi?

3. How long after Judge met Fay did they get married?

4. Why can Judge not be moved?

5. How did Judge meet Fay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Courtland tell Laurel after her father passes away?

2. Who is waiting when the train arrives in Judge's hometown?

3. What does Fay do when she sees the coffin?

4. Why do the neighbors blame Laurel for Judge marrying Fay?

5. Why does Laurel feel trapped in her parent's, now Fay's, bedroom?

6. What does Laurel decide to do?

7. In Chapter 2, what does Fay complain about while waiting for Judge to come out of surgery?

8. Is Laurel a responsible person, as demonstrated by her actions in Chapter 3?

9. What does the nurse tell Laurel when she arrives at the hospital? How does Laurel react?

10. What do the pictures and books in her father's library symbolize to Laurel?

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