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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. Why does Lee say everyone is happy?
(a) Hank is prepared to sell the business
(b) They are all wealthy
(c) There is good food and drink
(d) It is Christmas

2. How does Willard kill himself?
(a) He eats poison
(b) He drowns himself
(c) He drives off an embankment
(d) He shoots himself

3. How does Joe-Ben vent his excited energy?
(a) Has a beer
(b) Shouts at his wife
(c) Paints walls
(d) Runs around the block

4. Who gets to the hospital before Hank?
(a) Draeger
(b) Boney Stokes
(c) Tommy
(d) Lee

5. Who does Henry banter with in the bar?
(a) Hank
(b) Teddy
(c) Joe-Ben
(d) Indian Jenny

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Willard's mistress plan to marry?

2. What do Lee and Hank both comment on in their narratives?

3. Who tells Henry that Joe-Ben is dead?

4. Lee moves into _________.

5. What are flying south for winter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 10.

2. Describe what happens at the Snag in Chapter 6, Part 2.

3. What is Willard's mistress' plan to continue their relationship?

4. What is different about the novel's point of view?

5. Why is Jenny tossing shells onto her bed?

6. Describe Hank's time at the Snag.

7. In what way does Hank show that he is losing control?

8. Why does Lee refuse to get out of bed?

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

10. How does Hank react to Willard's death?

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