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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 Nannie wearing, in Chapter 23, which surprises Garnett?
(a) A halter top.
(b) A fancy ring.
(c) Flip flops.
(d) Short pants.

2. What physical ailment has Garnett suffered from for years?
(a) Back pain.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Leg cramps.
(d) Dizziness.

3. What kind of berries do coyotes like?
(a) Gooseberries.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Boysenberries.
(d) Blackberries.

4. What is the rumor around town about Lusa?
(a) She has rich, gangster cousins.
(b) She married Cole for his land.
(c) She was married once before.
(d) She is selling the farm and moving.

5. According to Deanna's dad, why do adult birds "fly around crazy" in August?
(a) Trying to mate.
(b) To get their young out of the nest.
(c) Getting ready to migrate.
(d) Looking for food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Crys?

2. Why does the coyote like Nannie's orchard?

3. In Chapter 16, why does Deanna feel ashamed?

4. Jewel says that her painkillers make her stupid as a what?

5. Why does Lusa think her garden looks different from other people's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Garnett not like the pickers that come each fall to help with the harvest?

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

3. What does Nannie do, in Chapter 20, that makes Garnett realize how starved he is for human touch?

4. In Chapter 25, what does Deanna remember as the closest thing to an explanation of the birds and the bees that she ever got?

5. Why is the first cold day a day that Deanna will never forget?

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

7. 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?

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

9. In Chapter 23, what are Garnett and Nannie's differing views on old age?

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

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