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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jane long to be?
(a) On a sunny beach.
(b) Back in college.
(c) Back in the early years of their marriage when Oliver spoke to her about his discoveries.
(d) With someone else.

2. When Sam repairs the gramophone, what kind of music does it play?
(a) Garbled Madonna music.
(b) Oldies.
(c) Rap.
(d) Swing music.

3. What do the Cosgroves use their insurance money to do?
(a) Build the same house.
(b) Buy a new house.
(c) Buy a new condo.
(d) Build the same house they had adding a large window removed from the John Hancock building.

4. What does Sam use to maintain a more natural environment?
(a) Sheep and pesticides with lower toxicity.
(b) Insects and bacteria to kill pests.
(c) No power tools.
(d) Organic growing techniques.

5. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?
(a) They go out to dinner.
(b) They see a movie.
(c) They drive.
(d) They shop.

6. What does Jane remember about the day before her wedding?
(a) She was so excited she could not sleep.
(b) She woke up screaming and did not understand why.
(c) She spent the evening with her mother.
(d) She woke up a little nervous and very excited.

7. What does Sam's mother do with all the photos before the surgery?
(a) She burns them.
(b) She tears them up.
(c) She puts them in a scrapbook.
(d) She frames them.

8. While he waits in his hotel room, about what does he think?
(a) His work.
(b) His family.
(c) Whales.
(d) The waitress.

9. Why does Sam undergo two operations?
(a) He cannot walk.
(b) He is cross-eyed.
(c) He has cancer.
(d) He has trouble hearing.

10. Why will Oliver not be at Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?
(a) He does not want to be there.
(b) He will be in China.
(c) He is being forced to work.
(d) He has committed to a whale watching expedition off the coast of South America.

11. After years of being unwilling to swim, what happens to Jane?
(a) She now regains her love of the water.
(b) She falls into the water.
(c) She dips her toe in the water.
(d) She almost drowns.

12. Does Jane feel loss or grief about her father's death?
(a) Yes.
(b) Not at first.
(c) No.
(d) Some.

13. Jane and Rebecca arrive at Hansen's orchard and look for who?
(a) Sam.
(b) Joley.
(c) Hadley.
(d) Mr. Hansen.

14. Does Joseph Tall Neck believe Jane's story?
(a) No.
(b) Not at first.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

15. When the truck stops at a roadside diner, what does Earl attempt to do?
(a) Buy her dinner.
(b) Help Rebecca out of the truck.
(c) Give Rebecca his phone number.
(d) Molest Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joley repay Jane, who rescued him from jail and kept in touch with him during his years of wanderlust?

2. How are Jane and Rebecca's roles reversed?

3. The morning after having sex with Joellen, Sam stands near the barn thinking about what?

4. Who does Rebecca meet at the diner?

5. What does Joley say when she tells him about leaving Oliver?

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