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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Jack indignant about when he is in the kitchen?
(a) He is the only one working this hard.
(b) Everyone pretending eveything is ok.
(c) Everyone talking too loudly.
(d) HIs mother is eating again.

4. How does Jack's mother comfort him and his sibling?
(a) By reading the Bible to them nightly.
(b) By embracing them and giving constant praise and reassurance.
(c) By taking them on long drives.
(d) By telling them the accident was not their fault.

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

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

7. What does Jack use to push the manure in the barn into the gutters?
(a) A metal trowel.
(b) A long handled shovel.
(c) A blunt wooden scraper.
(d) A push broom.

8. How does Jack come to feel about his raging on the tractor?
(a) Hopeful of becoming an actor.
(b) Proud.
(c) Ashamed.
(d) Happy that he is so much like his father.

9. How old is the character who accidentally kills the child?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nine.
(d) Ten.

10. How does Jack describe the memory of his brother's death?
(a) An ugly memory.
(b) A sad memory.
(c) A black memory.
(d) An unforgettable memory.

11. What does Jack do while waiting for the cows to finish eating?
(a) He cries in the hay.
(b) He screams at the cows to hurry.
(c) He takes a nap.
(d) He listens to them chew.

12. How does Jack respond to Phoebe's question at the beginning of lunch?
(a) "No thank you."
(b) "Not really."
(c) "I'd rather be alone."
(d) "I am fine for now."

13. When Jack's father is gone for days, who takes over the work of the farm?
(a) Jack and his uncles, nieghbors or cousins.
(b) Jack alone.
(c) Jack and hired help.
(d) Jack and his friends.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the victim riding when he falls off and is run over?

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

3. What does Jack do to try and block out the raging in his head?

4. What does Jack drink from the thermos Phoebe brings him?

5. For what is Dale Hawthorne well-known in his town?

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