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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 does Dr. Lowenstein's husband do for a living?
(a) He is a doctor like his wife.
(b) He is a musician.
(c) He is a writer.
(d) He is a professor at a city university.

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

3. Why does Isabel Newbury leave Tom and his mother standing on the porch?
(a) Todd doesn't want to speak to Tom.
(b) Todd's father will erupt if he sees Tom.
(c) Isabel refuses to answer the door.
(d) Standing on the porch is part of Tom's punishment.

4. How many different types of Wingos are there according to Tom?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

5. Which of the following characters dies during the storm?
(a) Amos.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Esther.
(d) Lila.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby Blankenship offer the children?

2. When Henry is recalled to the Air Force to go to Korea, where do Lila and the children go to live?

3. Why does Tom tell Dr. Lowenstein the story of his mother's quest to win the Colleton League cookbook contest?

4. Tom and Savannah admittedly resent their parents because ___________.

5. Tom's story is set against the backdrop of which war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tom admit to hating both men and women equally?

2. What does the robbery that Luke witnesses in New York show us about the city?

3. How does Tom turn the tables on Bernard?

4. How does the scene in the funeral parlor contrast with the rest of the Wingo childhood?

5. Why does Tom feel Grandma Tolitha returns to Grandpa Wingo?

6. How do the Wingo children get revenge on the Newburys?

7. What is the significance of the game Tom plays with his daughters?

8. How does the Prologue present the father of the Wingo children?

9. How does Lila react to Henry's buying a tiger?

10. How does Tom explain the recording of Savannah's psychotic seizure?

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