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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Judge want to keep evidence of his first wife from Fay?

2. How often did Laurel's mother write to Judge?

3. What does Laurel do when she sees what is in the house?

4. Where does Fay decide to go?

5. Who was the optimist?

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