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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 the house where Doc and Pat live look like?
(a) Modern and spacious.
(b) Dilapidated and large.
(c) Small and tidy.
(d) Old and expensive.

2. What is the name of Pat's prison?
(a) Sandstone State Reformatory.
(b) Riverdale State Reformatory.
(c) Everwood State Reformatory.
(d) Springwater State Reformatory.

3. What is threatening Pat's situation with Doc?
(a) Pat's new job.
(b) Lila's flirting.
(c) Pat's relationship with Madeline.
(d) Pat's parole officer.

4. After the run-in with Madeline, what does Doc tell Pat on the drive to the house?
(a) His employees are not allowed to fraternize.
(b) He is dying.
(c) He is divorcing his wife.
(d) The front lawn needs mowing.

5. What does Pat contemplate while at the diner?
(a) Ecological destruction.
(b) The recession.
(c) Social corruption.
(d) Urban sprawl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pat realize at the end of Chapter 11?

2. What do Pat and Madeline promise to do?

3. How does Lila explain the purchase of the car?

4. What does Pat notice about the Capitol building?

5. Who supposedly bought the car in Pat's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Doc picks Pat up from prison, they stop at a roadhouse diner. What bombshell does Doc drop on Pat at the diner?

2. What do the documents that Doc is looking at say about Pat?

3. Why does Pat visit Bill Hardesty?

4. Why does Madeline caution Pat to be careful around Doc?

5. What does Pat reveal to Madeline and the parole officer in Chapter 12? Why does he do this?

6. What does Lila do to make Pat uncomfortable?

7. How does Pat get his job at the Highway Commission?

8. What documents is Doc looking at in Chapter 1?

9. Why does Lila apparently buy the car for Pat?

10. Why doesn't Madeline share her life story with Pat?

(see the answer keys)

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