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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 does Leslie leave for Will in his room at the nursing home?
(a) His guns.
(b) Magazines to read and movies to watch.
(c) Marion's lap robe.
(d) New clothes, a pipe, and a Bible.

2. What does the dog do when Will falls into the greenhouse?
(a) Bites his hand again.
(b) Runs to hide.
(c) Wags his tail and waits for Will to get up.
(d) Licks his face.

3. What happens to Will after he gets cleaned up and heads out in his car again?
(a) He ends up driving back to the greenhouse.
(b) He drives to Georgia.
(c) He gets lost.
(d) He wrecks his car.

4. Whom does everyone keep comparing Leslie to?
(a) Kitty.
(b) Will's father.
(c) Jack Curl.
(d) Marion.

5. What happens when the hiker puts his hand on Allison's thigh?
(a) They kiss.
(b) The dog growls and scares him away.
(c) Allison won't look at him or talk.
(d) Allison slaps him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allison assure Dr. Vance when she tells him that Will is at her place?

2. What does Will want to do when he leaves the country club parking lot?

3. What does Will propose that he do for Slocum's law office?

4. What does the narrator chalk up Kitty's "new age" beliefs to?

5. How does Allison get Will onto her makeshift bed on the table?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Allison feel about doing the errands that Will asks her to do?

2. What happens to Will's guns at the end of the novel?

3. Where has Will's daughter, Leslie, moved while he has been away at the cave and the greenhouse?

4. What does Will take with him into the cave?

5. What happens in the secret room that Jack Curl shows Will at the convalescent home?

6. What does Will dream that the country club becomes in the future while he is sleeping in his car?

7. What makes Allison feel like she needs another person in her life?

8. Where does Will take Allison when they leave the greenhouse?

9. After Will falls into the greenhouse, what is it that makes Allison think she knows who he is before she sees his face?

10. What psychological breakthrough does Will make as he sits in his car thinking?

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