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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Tom and Dr. Lowenstein go the night after their initial meeting?
(a) To visit Savannah in the hospital.
(b) To visit Luke in a psychiatric ward.
(c) To visit Lila in the nursing home.
(d) To visit the grave of Tom's deceased grandfather.

2. What news do Tom and his family discover in Chapter One?
(a) Tom's brother decided to move back home.
(b) Lila has finally remarried.
(c) Tom's father recently passed away.
(d) Savannah has tried to commit suicide again.

3. What does Tom promise to tell Dr. Lowenstein during dinner?
(a) He promises to tell her everything she wants to know about Savannah's past.
(b) He promises to let the doctor help him with his marriage.
(c) He promises to call his mother and tell her how he feels.
(d) He promises to tell her why he maintains his racist beliefs.

4. What does Lila teach her children to do?
(a) She taught them to respect nature in all its beauty.
(b) She taught them to hide their wounds with lies.
(c) She taught them to judge people based on appearances.
(d) She taught them to always follow their dreams.

5. Who is Winthrop Ogletree?
(a) The mortician.
(b) The local witch doctor.
(c) The town doctor.
(d) The country sheriff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters dies during the storm?

2. Whose phone call disrupts the harmony of the opening scene?

3. How many children do Tom and his wife have?

4. After the children are in bed, where do Tom and his wife go?

5. Why might Conroy have included the scene with Tolitha's coffin in Chapter Eight?

(see the answer key)

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