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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feature of the police officer's appearance is surprising to Allison?
(a) That he is fat.
(b) That he is younger than she originally thought.
(c) That he is older than she originally thought.
(d) That his nail is polished.

2. How much is being offered for the island that Allison inherited off the Georgia coast?
(a) Nothing, it's worthless.
(b) $20.1 million.
(c) $2.1 million.
(d) $200,000.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will think his experiment might do for his relationship with his daughter?

2. Where does Will have another "fit or spell" of falling down during the engagement party?

3. What does Will attribute Allison's strange behavior to when he first meets her?

4. What does Allison initially think she will use as a part of her pulley system to get the stove out of the cellar?

5. Which of these is NOT one of the people that Allison talks to while she sits on the bench?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Will gets home from the Sunday golf game and sits in his garage?

2. What is Will unhappy about during the game of golf with Ed Cupp, Bernie Peabody, Lewis Peckham, and Jimmy Rogers?

3. What does Will think his father was trying to tell him on that hunting trip?

4. Why is Allison hesitant to take the gift Will brings her?

5. Why does Will obsess over how many shots his father fired on the hunting trip they took together?

6. Why does Allison refuse Will's help in moving the stove?

7. Why does Allison buy herself new clothes when she gets to Linwood?

8. What does Will hope to prove with his experiment?

9. What does Lewis think is wrong with Will?

10. What is the self-discovery that Allison makes before she goes to Linwood?

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