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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. Where do the men go after their supper?
(a) The Snag
(b) The town hall
(c) The woods
(d) The shack

2. What does Hank say wakes him up?
(a) A nightmare
(b) Gunshots
(c) Birds
(d) An aeroplane

3. How does Hank react to Willard's death?
(a) With a laugh
(b) With shock
(c) With anger
(d) With a smile

4. This section begins with a reference to _________.
(a) Country music
(b) Family love
(c) Suicide
(d) Echoes

5. What does Willard tell Hank he is planning to do?
(a) organize a picket
(b) Kill himself
(c) Kill Hank
(d) Leave town

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hank see in the window?

2. What is Hank making it impossible for people in the town to do?

3. What does Jenny want the shells to form?

4. Who narrates the funeral?

5. What does Jenny toss onto her bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Hank's time at the Snag.

2. Why does Hank not want Joe-Ben to shoot the geese?

3. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 10.

4. Describe Willard's phone call to Hank.

5. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 11.

6. Why does Henry need to show Hank how to cut trees the old fashioned way?

7. How do Evenwrite and Draeger get to the Stamper's house?

8. Describe the prologue that opens Chapter 9.

9. In what way are the Canadian geese in both Hank and Lee's thoughts?

10. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 6, Part 2.

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