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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. Whose portrait towers above the men in the clubhouse at the golf course?
(a) Jack Nicklaus.
(b) Arnold Palmer.
(c) Ben Hogan.
(d) Tiger Woods.

2. What is Ed Cupp's relationship to Will Barrett?
(a) Ed Cupp is an old friend.
(b) Ed Cupp is Will's brother-in-law.
(c) Ed Cupp is Will's daughter's fiancé.
(d) Ed Cupp is Will's daughter's father-in-law.

3. What does Leslie ask Will NOT to do at her engagement party?
(a) To get too drunk.
(b) To have one of his "fade outs."
(c) To talk about guns.
(d) To flirt with Kitty.

4. Which of the following is NOT among the new things that Allison buys in town?
(a) A knapsack.
(b) A spiral notebook.
(c) Boots.
(d) Jeans.

5. Why does Allison go to see Jerry at Washau Motors?
(a) She needs her car fixed.
(b) Will told her to go there to get the creepers.
(c) She is trying to buy a car.
(d) She needs a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allison need two of that she purchases for $7.95 each?

2. What does Allison use the stained glass window for?

3. What perfume does Allison's mother, Kitty, wear?

4. According to the author, what claim to fame does Linwood, North Carolina have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Allison find out where her aunt's estate is?

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

3. What is the trouble that the chaplain Jack Curl is having with Will's daughter, Leslie?

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

5. What is it that Will Barrett realizes when he falls down during the golf game at the opening of the novel?

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

7. What does Lewis think is wrong with Will?

8. How does Allison get all of the things she purchases in town back to the greenhouse?

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

10. What restores the "missing ninety-eight percent" of Will's personality?

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