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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. As a child, what did Lusa raise in shoeboxes?
(a) Kittens.
(b) Mice.
(c) Caterpillars.
(d) Frogs.
2. What is the other name of Highway 6?
(a) Cedar Street.
(b) Meadow Brook Lane.
(c) Mountain Road.
(d) Honeysuckle Road.
3. What does Nannie call the greatest invention of life?
(a) Sex.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Apple trees.
(d) Family.
4. What does Lusa say that convinces Jewel to allow her to adopt her children, after her death?
(a) She will send them to college.
(b) Their father cannot be trusted.
(c) She will get Crys to be more feminine.
(d) She loves them.
5. According to Nannie, there is nothing as important as having what?
(a) Love.
(b) Children.
(c) Variety.
(d) Food.
Short Answer Questions
1. What wakes Deanna up from a nap, in Chapter 19?
2. In Chapter 24, Jewel is talking about dying. What is one thing that she will regret not seeing?
3. Jewel says that her painkillers make her stupid as a what?
4. In Chapter 22, Deanna feels so much despair on the mountain that she lays down and does what?
5. Why does the coyote like Nannie's orchard?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 30, Lusa is finally beginning to feel like what?
2. Why is Deanna anxious about Eddie reading her thesis?
3. What reasons does Lusa give Jewel for wanting to adopt her children?
4. In Chapter 23, what are Garnett and Nannie's differing views on old age?
5. In Chapter 25, what does Deanna remember as the closest thing to an explanation of the birds and the bees that she ever got?
6. In Chapter 19, Deanna is exhibiting what symptoms that causes Eddie to think that she is anemic and Deanna to think she is menopausal?
7. How does Lusa respond to Little Rickie's invitation to have sex?
8. What realizations does Deanna have, alone in a rainstorm, in Chapter 29?
9. What do Nannie and Garnett call each other, at the end of Chapter 28?
10. What does Nannie do, in Chapter 20, that makes Garnett realize how starved he is for human touch?
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