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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 Tom recall that his father did not allow?
(a) He did not permit crimes against nature.
(b) He did not permit disrepect.
(c) He did not permit failure at school.
(d) He did not permit socializing with other races.

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

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

4. Who does Dr. Lowenstein inform Tom that she has spoken with on the phone?
(a) Luke.
(b) Lila.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Tolitha.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about the traumatic memory from the Wingo childhood?

2. Who tries to buy Henry Wingo's island?

3. What is the name of Tom's wife?

4. Why does Tom begin writing letters to South Carolina?

5. How does Tom characterize himself in relation to the other Wingo children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Lila want the children to tell their father about the man called "Callanwolde"?

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

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

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

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

6. How does the fury of the storm echo the plight of Lila Wingo?

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

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

9. Why does Henry covert to Catholicism?

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

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