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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the runner suggest when Allison mentions that she's not sure where she's staying?
(a) He tells her where to find a shelter that she can use.
(b) He offers to take her to his house.
(c) He suggests a hotel to her.
(d) He offers to take her to a boarding house.

2. What treatment did Allison receive at the sanitorium?
(a) Psychotherapy.
(b) Behavioral Therapy.
(c) Regression Therapy.
(d) Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).

3. Where was Allison before she arrived in Linwood, NC?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) New York City.
(c) The Valleyhead Sanitorium.
(d) All over the country.

4. Why does Allison look at her drivers license several times?
(a) Because she can't believe how different she looks.
(b) Because it is fake and she is memorizing her new name.
(c) Because she has lost her memory and can't remember her name.
(d) Because she keeps worrying she has lost it.

5. How does Allison learn Will's name?
(a) Jerry at the auto shop tells her.
(b) Will tells her.
(c) She asks at the A&P if anyone knows him.
(d) She sees his photo and name at the auto shop.

6. What does Allison show Will on his second visit?
(a) The stove she found in the cellar.
(b) The furniture she found in the cellar.
(c) The plants she is growing in the greenhouse.
(d) Old bottles.

7. 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 for a cane.
(b) He uses it to prop up the barbed wire fence so he can climb under it.
(c) He knocks the ball out of a tree with it.
(d) He holds it like a shotgun.

8. What does Will Barrett see as a sign that the end of the world might be near at hand?
(a) The red leaves on the trees.
(b) A cloud.
(c) The Jews leaving North Carolina.
(d) A bird flying past.

9. How does Allison think she can make a living?
(a) Waiting tables in town.
(b) By growing plants in the greenhouse.
(c) By cutting hair at the salon.
(d) Working with an animal shelter.

10. How old is the stove that Allison finds?
(a) 8-years-old.
(b) 150-years-old.
(c) 50-years-old.
(d) 85-years-old.

11. What does Allison notice that many of the young people are wearing as she watches from the bench?
(a) Braids.
(b) College t-shirts.
(c) Leather pants.
(d) Bell-bottoms.

12. Who does Ewell want to fix Will up with?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His sister.
(c) The leading lady of his partner's adult movies.
(d) His business partner.

13. What kind of energy does the stove require in order to work?
(a) Gas.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Coal.
(d) Wood.

14. What project is Jack asking Will to donate money towards?
(a) A nursing home.
(b) A retirement village.
(c) A youth camp.
(d) An all-male religious retreat.

15. Which of these is NOT one of the treasures that Allison finds in the cellar of the burned down estate?
(a) Block and tackle.
(b) A stained glass window.
(c) An iron stove.
(d) Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is written in the notebook that Allison carries with her?

2. Why does Will go through the trouble of leaving such elaborate instructions for Lewis and Sutter to carry out?

3. What does Leslie ask Will NOT to do at her engagement party?

4. How many cars are in the garage?

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

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