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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one habit Jack's father takes up after the accident?
(a) Talking in his sleep.
(b) Eating constantly.
(c) Chain smoking Lucky Strikes.
(d) Drinking beer all day.

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

3. What can Jack hear from the other workers sitting at the other lunch site?
(a) Whispering.
(b) A man yelling over to him.
(c) Laughter and yelling.
(d) Laughter over a joke told by his cousin.

4. How much time has passed between David's death and harvest time in the fields?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) Three years.

5. Who does Jack's father blame for his son's death?
(a) The tractor.
(b) His wife.
(c) Himself.
(d) God.

6. How old is the youngest child at the time of the accident?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

7. As Jack walks down the road, what is on his right?
(a) Blueberries and blackberries.
(b) Apple orchards.
(c) Alfalfa and wheat.
(d) Newly cultivated corn.

8. What recitation of his father's does Jack recall as he suffers his anger and grief?
(a) Brutus' soliloquy.
(b) Mark Antony's condemnation.
(c) Cicero's final speech.
(d) Silas Marner's monologue.

9. What does Phoebe ask Jack as he begins his lunch?
(a) If he wants to join the others.
(b) If he needs more to drink.
(c) If he wants to say grace.
(d) If he wants a napkin.

10. What is in the basket Phoebe brings to Jack?
(a) Ham sandwiches and fresh fruit.
(b) Tuna, bread and cookies.
(c) Chicken, biscuits, carrots and ranch dip.
(d) Chicken, rolls, celery and salt.

11. What explanation does Jack give Phoebe at the beginning of lunch that puts her at rest?
(a) He has said grace in his head.
(b) He is happy with the lunch.
(c) He is a very neat eater.
(d) He enjoys being just the two of them for lunch.

12. When Jack stops for lunch after driving the tractor in the fields all morning, where does he sit?
(a) In the shade of an elm away from the others.
(b) In the shade of an oak tree.
(c) With his cousins.
(d) Under the overhang on the barn.

13. Where is Jack when he is making up his stories?
(a) Riding on the tractor at work.
(b) In the shower.
(c) Sitting in his bed at night.
(d) Milking the cows.

14. Where on the farm does Jack work with his uncles?
(a) In the fields with the tractors.
(b) In the silo shoveling grain.
(c) In the dairy barn with the cows.
(d) In the back forty with the cultipacker.

15. What does Jack finally contemplate while riding on the tractor telling his stories?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Murder.
(c) Escape.
(d) College.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jack respond to Phoebe's question at the beginning of lunch?

2. What finally ruins Jack's fantasy stories when he is driving the tractor in the field?

3. What kind of motorcycle does Jack's father have?

4. What does Jack do while waiting for the cows to finish eating?

5. When Jack enters his home after riding the tractor home in the thunderstorm, how does he behave?

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