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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack notice about his sister as she is laying out the food?
(a) She is crying and very unhappy.
(b) She is smiling and acting like she is playing house.
(c) She is falling asleep from exhaustion.
(d) She is weak with hunger.

2. As Jack walks down the road, what is on his left?
(a) Newly cultivated corn.
(b) Alfalfa and soybeans.
(c) Vineyards.
(d) Ready to harvest wheat.

3. Who are the heroines of Jack's stories?
(a) A schoolgirl named Margaret and his cousin, Linda.
(b) His sister and his French horn teacher.
(c) His teacher and a schoolgirl named Margaret.
(d) His mother and his sister, Phoebe.

4. How does Jack behave toward his father and his uncles while working?
(a) He is quiet and aloof.
(b) He is funny and entertaining.
(c) He is angry and yelling.
(d) He is bored and disinterested.

5. What is Jack's mother's support system after the accident?
(a) Her many close, religious friends who visit often and care for her.
(b) Reading and writing poetry.
(c) Eating and watching television alone.
(d) She does not have one.

6. What kinds of things does Jack's mother insist her children do?
(a) Music lessons, playdates with friends and early bedtimes.
(b) School, tennis lessons, chores, and laundry.
(c) School, chores, music lessons, and art lessons.
(d) Music lessons, school, church groups and chores.

7. What does Jack see as he starts up the tractor after lunch to go back to work?
(a) Phoebe turns and waves to him.
(b) His mother standing in the doorway of the kitchen waving to him.
(c) Phoebe runs back to give him a hug.
(d) The other men all sit and have a smoke.

8. How does Jack's mother deal with her grief outwardly?
(a) By crying nightly with the children.
(b) By refusing to speak to her husband.
(c) By playing cards with friends.
(d) By eating herself into a state of being overweight.

9. What is Phoebe doing in the kitchen when Jack comes in?
(a) Scrubbing the sink.
(b) Mopping the floor.
(c) Making chicken salad.
(d) Making cakes.

10. What about his surroundings does Jack become aware of while eating his lunch?
(a) There are clouds in the sky predicting rain.
(b) The day has begun to cool down.
(c) There are birds singing in the trees.
(d) It is a breezeless, insect-ridden heat.

11. What do his co-workers accept about Dale Hawthorne since his son has died?
(a) His father's death.
(b) His father's refusal to work during harvest.
(c) His father's drinking.
(d) HIs father's ways of handling his brother's death.

12. How does the narrator describe Jack's father before the accident?
(a) An unfatihful husband and a bad neighbor.
(b) A reckless man with little control over his family.
(c) A gentle but stupid farmer.
(d) A faithful husband and a fair minded, genial farmer.

13. What is Phoebe's attitude as she carries the basket filled with lunch up to the field hands?
(a) She is obviously frustrated and does not want to walk up the hill.
(b) She sees nothing unreasonable about lugging the basket up the hill.
(c) She is delighted and runs up the hill.
(d) She is annoyed by the insects flying in her face.

14. In the opening of the story, who dies in April?
(a) Daniel Hawthorne.
(b) David Hawthorne.
(c) Dale Hawthorne.
(d) John Hawthorne.

15. What month is it when Jack sits under the tree with Phoebe and has lunch?
(a) August.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) July.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the basket Phoebe brings to Jack?

2. What happens to Jack when he has painful thoughts on the tractor?

3. What is the name of the feed store?

4. What is the difference in Jack's stories before and after the accident?

5. How does Phoebe feel about having lunch with her brother?

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