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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jane's mother initially react when she tells her about her father molesting her?
(a) She denies it.
(b) She cries.
(c) She calls the police.
(d) She says she is sorry.

2. What kind of pain is Jane causing Sam?
(a) Stomach pains.
(b) Heartache.
(c) A two-day-old headache.
(d) Heart palpitations.

3. How does Jane learn that Oliver is proclaiming his love for her?
(a) Sam tells her.
(b) She turns on the news.
(c) She receives a phone call.
(d) Rebecca tells her.

4. At the beginning of this section, what do Jane and Rebecca gape?
(a) A series of pickled fetuses.
(b) Human arteries.
(c) Paintings by Monet.
(d) A Giacometti sculpture.

5. Where are Oliver, Jane and Rebecca going back to?
(a) San Diego.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Gloucester.

6. What does Oliver yearn to do?
(a) Go back to work.
(b) Go home.
(c) Gather up his family and go home.
(d) See the whales on the east coast.

7. What does Oliver hold up?
(a) A cell phone.
(b) A photo of his wife and daughter.
(c) A convenience mart.
(d) An address.

8. Is Oliver successful at saving the whale?
(a) Not yet.
(b) Hopefully.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

9. Sam keeps quiet while Oliver does what?
(a) Hits him.
(b) Screams.
(c) Pretends to have control of the situation.
(d) Cries.

10. What probability does Oliver face?
(a) He will lose his job.
(b) Jane is responsible for all of their problems.
(c) He will miss the whales.
(d) He is responsible for driving Jane away from their marriage.

11. What has Sam put into the car?
(a) Bushels of apples.
(b) A ring.
(c) A card.
(d) A note.

12. What happens when Jane finishes her shower?
(a) She is appalled to find Sam calmly shaving at the sink.
(b) She feels nervous.
(c) She slips.
(d) She feels refreshed.

13. How does Jane respond when Joley urges her to tell Rebecca her plans and to take the power position with Oliver by listening to him instead of talking?
(a) She shrugs off the advice.
(b) She laughs at him.
(c) She agrees with him.
(d) She does not hear him.

14. Jane writes a letter to Joley bragging about doing what?
(a) Seeing a concert in Minneapolis.
(b) Seeing the plane's wreckage.
(c) Visiting Chicago.
(d) Riding a bus on one lap of the Indianapolis Speedway.

15. The wind howls through the metal and the corn stalks like what?
(a) A tornado.
(b) Crying coyotes.
(c) Wild dogs.
(d) Ghosts of the people killed in the crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Joley, Hadley and Rebecca preparing to go into town?

2. In his letter to Jane, of what does Joley remind Jane?

3. What does Sam do when Jane tells her story and her fear of water?

4. Describe how Jane looks when they have finished?

5. Where does Jane promise to celebrate Rebecca's birthday?

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