View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Amos bring everyone to the hayloft barn?
(a) Because racist townsfolk are threatening the Wingo servants.
(b) Because robbers have broken into the house.
(c) Because the storm begins to flood the house.
(d) Because Amos wants to have a prayer meeting.

2. Where does Lila go to reinvent herself?
(a) Colleton.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Savannah.

3. How has Savannah responded to Tom's letters, according to Dr. Lowenstein?
(a) They have inspired Savannah to overcome her illness.
(b) They have upset Savannah to the point of needing sedation.
(c) They have angered Savannah to thoughts of suicide.
(d) They have not been read by Savannah.

4. What does Tom see as the character flaw in Tolitha?
(a) She has a violent side like her son.
(b) She turns to drinking whenever a situation is tense.
(c) She relies too much on superstition.
(d) She refuses to attend church with her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much time has passed since Tom and Luke went to visit their sister in New York?

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

4. What happens as Tom tries to explain the game of football to Dr. Lowenstein?

5. Which of the following images from the Prologue could serve as an analogy for Tom and Savannah's wondrous and nightmarish childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the phone call contrast with the idyllic opening of Chapter 1?

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

3. What is one of the benefits of Tom's extraordinary childhood?

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

5. What does Luke pray for before his father leaves for Korea?

6. Why does Henry covert to Catholicism?

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

8. What is curious about Tolitha and Amos having Henry for a son?

9. What is the topic of Savannah's poetry?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,042 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample