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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives away the identity of the person who shoots into Will's garage?
(a) His voice.
(b) His red cap.
(c) His fluorescent hunting gear.
(d) His choice of weapon.

2. How large is the estate that Will lives on?
(a) One hundred acres.
(b) Two acres.
(c) Twenty acres.
(d) Ten thousand acres.

3. During the fivesome golf game, what unusual thing does Will find himself doing with his golf club when he is hunting for his out of bounds ball?
(a) He uses it to prop up the barbed wire fence so he can climb under it.
(b) He uses it for a cane.
(c) He holds it like a shotgun.
(d) He knocks the ball out of a tree with it.

4. Who does Will tell Kitty that he visited in Santa Fe the year before?
(a) One of their old classmates.
(b) Her brother, Sutter Vaughn.
(c) His pastor, Jack Curl.
(d) Her daughter, Allison.

5. Why does Will write Lewis a letter telling him that he is coming to visit him by coming through Lost Cove Cave?
(a) So Lewis can find his body if he dies in the cave.
(b) Because Lewis doesn't have a telephone.
(c) Because Lewis likes correspondence.
(d) So Lewis can come join him in the cave.

6. What does Will attribute Allison's strange behavior to when he first meets her?
(a) He thinks she's from California.
(b) He thinks she's a mystic.
(c) He thinks she's on drugs.
(d) He thinks she's foreign.

7. What does Will think that his constant hitting the golf ball out of bounds means in a larger sense?
(a) It represents a failure at life.
(b) He just attributes it to his poor health with no further meaning.
(c) It means that he's been cursed by God.
(d) It means that he's getting old.

8. What does Jimmy Rogers tell Will that he's done?
(a) That Will chose money over happiness.
(b) That Will won it all.
(c) That Will married his wife for money.
(d) That Will lost his soul.

9. What memory is triggered for Will when he's hunting out of bounds balls during the fivesome game of golf?
(a) He remembers helping his wife in and out of her wheelchair.
(b) He remembers taking his dog for walks in Central Park.
(c) He remembers a girl he loved in high school.
(d) He remembers when his father shot him.

10. What did young Will think just before the gunshot hit him?
(a) That he was lost.
(b) That his father must not have seen him.
(c) That the gun looked like a photo of a Civil War soldier.
(d) That he was dead.

11. Where does Allison get the cash that she is using for supplies?
(a) She withdrew it from her bank account when she got to Linwood.
(b) She stole it from other inmates of the institution.
(c) She snuck it into the institution in her shoes.
(d) She took it from her father's wallet when he was visiting.

12. Why is Sirius Allison's favorite star?
(a) Because she can always see it from her window.
(b) Because it shines blue.
(c) Because she likes the name.
(d) Because it's indestructible.

13. Which of these options is NOT something that Lewis Peckham suggests that he and Will do after the engagement party to cheer him up?
(a) Go visit a woman who makes erotic films.
(b) Listen to music and drink at Lewis' house.
(c) Sit in the caves.
(d) Shoot doves.

14. What does Allison need the WD-40 for?
(a) To loosen the screws on the stove.
(b) The door in the greenhouse squeaked.
(c) To polish the stove.
(d) The hinges on some of the windows needed oiling.

15. Who is the philosopher who inspires Will's experiment in the cave?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Pascal.
(c) Sartre.
(d) Heidegger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treatment did Allison receive at the sanitorium?

2. What phrase does Allison repeat in Dr. Duk's office?

3. Where are Allison's parents on their way to when they stop to visit her and Dr. Duk?

4. Why does Allison look at her drivers license several times?

5. Who is it that Will Barrett thinks about when he collapses on the green during the first golf game?

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