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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 is the other name of Highway 6?
(a) Mountain Road.
(b) Honeysuckle Road.
(c) Meadow Brook Lane.
(d) Cedar Street.

2. Who is Lusa spending time with, in Chapter 21?
(a) Crys and Lowell.
(b) Little Rickie.
(c) Lois.
(d) Jewel.

3. Why does the coyote like Nannie's orchard?
(a) It is secluded.
(b) There is tall grass to hide in.
(c) There are no chemicals.
(d) It is quiet.

4. According to Lusa, what do people do more of, when they are sad?
(a) Fight.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Drink.
(d) Weep.

5. According to Nannie, there is nothing as important as having what?
(a) Food.
(b) Love.
(c) Variety.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the chemotherapy, what can Jewel not eat anymore?

2. What is the main question that Deanna keeps asking herself?

3. Where does Garnett find Nannie, in Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 29, what does Deanna feel she cannot bear another minute without?

5. How many times has Deanna been caught outside in a lightning storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the snake, leaving the cabin, symbolize for Deanna, in Chapter 22?

2. In Chapter 19, Deanna is exhibiting what symptoms that causes Eddie to think that she is anemic and Deanna to think she is menopausal?

3. In Chapter 30, Lusa starts to think of Cole in a different manner. What is this?

4. In Chapter 17, what remark does Nannie make that causes Garnett to wonder if he may have been responsible for his wife's death?

5. Nannie is upset because the church fumigated for bees and now honey is oozing out of the walls. What does she think they should have done instead?

6. What realizations does Deanna have, alone in a rainstorm, in Chapter 29?

7. What does Garnett tell Nannie is the reason that he will not reach out to his son?

8. Why is Deanna anxious about Eddie reading her thesis?

9. In Chapter 24, what reason does Lusa give Jewel for using every bit of produce from her garden?

10. What does Hannie-Mavis tell Lusa is the real reason that Cole's family does not seem to embrace her?

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