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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Hadley explain to Rebecca about Sam?
(a) He is not very nice.
(b) He is not fond of girls raised in the suburbs of Boston, like Newton.
(c) He is an angry man.
(d) He does not know how to talk to women.

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

5. What does the gas station attendant recognize?
(a) Oliver's voice.
(b) Oliver's name.
(c) Oliver's truck.
(d) Oliver's gas can.

6. Over breakfast, where does Jane tell Rebecca is their next destination?
(a) The ruins of the plane crash in Iowa.
(b) Indianapolis.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Chicago.

7. At a diner, how do Jane and Rebecca introduce themselves?
(a) As Jane and Rebecca.
(b) As Janet and Rachel.
(c) As Lila and Pearl.
(d) As sisters.

8. Why does Joley threaten to boycott the wedding?
(a) Jane would not listen to his objections.
(b) Jane did not plane that wedding the way he wanted it.
(c) He does not like Jane.
(d) He hates weddings.

9. When Tall Neck sells a convertible MG to Jane, of what is he unaware?
(a) He has left a manila envelope with $600 in the MG.
(b) It is stolen.
(c) It is brand new.
(d) It is not running well.

10. With what was Sam fascinated when he was a child?
(a) His father's broken gramophone.
(b) His mother's broken gramophone.
(c) His sister's broken gramophone.
(d) His brother's broken gramophone.

11. Emotionally repressed Oliver attempts to get back to work by doing what?
(a) Drafting an article on humpback whales for the Journal of Mammology.
(b) Working in a zoo.
(c) Setting up meetings with other researchers.
(d) Heading to the east coast to observe whales.

12. Where does the boy say the woman and teen girl are headed?
(a) To Massachusetts.
(b) To the Redwood Forest.
(c) To Yellowstone National Park.
(d) On the highway to the Grand Canyon.

13. Where does Oliver long to be?
(a) Back in college.
(b) In Europe.
(c) Near the West Coast humpback whales.
(d) Near the East Coast humpback whales.

14. Where does Oliver's car run out of gas?
(a) In Content, Colorado.
(b) In Fancyfree, Kansas.
(c) In Carefree, Arizona.
(d) In Happy, Nebraska.

15. What job does Jane have?
(a) She is a principal for the San Diego school system.
(b) She is a nurse for the San Diego school system.
(c) She is a teacher for the San Diego school system.
(d) She is a speech pathologist for the San Diego school system.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In his instructions for the next leg of the journey, where does Joley direct Jane?

3. Jane and Rebecca arrive at Hansen's orchard and look for who?

4. When does Oliver believe he will be back from finding his wife and daughter?

5. How does Oliver feel about the close relationship between Joley and Jane?

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