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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Amos get his license back?
(a) He helps the sheriff out of trouble.
(b) He does community service.
(c) He water skis 40 miles to the Colleton dock.
(d) He pays a fine.

2. How does Tom feel after reading Renata's book?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He is sad.
(d) He is curious.

3. What event causes Tom to cry while talking to Lila?
(a) Henry violently attacks Tom.
(b) Tom tries to convince her not to divorce Henry.
(c) Amos' death.
(d) Savannah tried to kill herself.

4. What does Lila give Savannah as a graduation present?
(a) A bottle of perfume.
(b) An empty journal.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A gold pen.

5. Why doesn't Savannah go to New York after graduation as she originally planned?
(a) Her fear of the city.
(b) Her lack of finances.
(c) Her allegiance to her family.
(d) Her suicide attempt.

6. Why won't Lila buy Tom the clothes he asks for?
(a) Because she wants to teach him to treasure what he cannot have.
(b) Because she does not love Tom as much as Savannah.
(c) Because the Wingo family cannot afford it.
(d) Because Henry refuses to dress his boys that way.

7. How does Herbert Woodruff speak to Tom at the dinner party?
(a) With contempt and bitterness.
(b) With disinterest and apathy.
(c) With cruel sarcasm.
(d) With warmth and hospitality.

8. What is Renata Halpern's book about?
(a) Events he remembers from Savannah's childhood.
(b) Poetry that seems to resemble Savannah's.
(c) Mystical creatures Tom does not recognize.
(d) Events he remembers from Papa John's bedtime stories.

9. Why does the football coach change his mind about integration?
(a) He sees how fast the black student can run.
(b) He sees how diligent the black student is in his classes.
(c) He sees how well the black student can throw.
(d) He sees how hard the black student can hit.

10. After Tom confronts her in Chapter Twenty, what does Susan then accuse Tom of doing?
(a) Not being honest with Susan about his attraction to her.
(b) Not allowing Bernard to be the boy he wants to be.
(c) Not telling her everything he could about Savannah.
(d) Not giving Susan all the details of his wife's affair.

11. Who is awarded all the belongings of the Wingo family?
(a) Tom.
(b) Henry.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Lila.

12. Where do Tom and Luke go after the game?
(a) To a movie.
(b) To a dance.
(c) To a corner store.
(d) To a rally.

13. After discussing the issue or Renata in Chapter Twenty, Tom flashes back to a time when the three children were __________________.
(a) Listening to Papa John tell one of his stories,
(b) Letting themselves sink to the bottom of a river.
(c) Hiding from their father in one of his drunken rages.
(d) Running in a the forest called "Callanwolde".

14. What does Henry conclude about his family during their graduation party in Chapter Two?
(a) They are lazy.
(b) They are too cruel.
(c) They are too sensitive.
(d) They are too much like their mother.

15. Which character is NOT embarrassed by Grandpa Amos' show?
(a) Tom.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Tolitha.
(d) Luke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes a stand for Benji before the football game against North Charleston?

2. Where does Luke go after the war?

3. Which character challenges Tom to a fight after school?

4. What does Tolitha do every Good Friday?

5. In Chapter Nineteen, who helps Tom search through Savannah's apartment?

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