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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. When the orchard suffered a parasite causing loss of half of the crop when Sam was fourteen, how did he comfort himself?
(a) By learning about electronics.
(b) By learning to fix appliances.
(c) By learning how to play music.
(d) By learning how to sing.

2. Where do Sam, Hadley, Jane, Rebecca and Joley go for a picnic and to swim?
(a) Poughkeepsie Park.
(b) Pickerington Pond.
(c) Pickerel Pond.
(d) Portage Park.

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

4. Jane describes the mutual disgust between who?
(a) The college-bound children of Newton and the Minuteman Tech college-bound students.
(b) The college-bound children of Newton and the Minuteman Tech students.
(c) The technical school-bound children of Newton and the Minuteman Tech college-bound students.
(d) Jane and Sam.

5. Where does Jane act as a dutiful wife?
(a) At board meetings and public functions.
(b) At all times.
(c) At school and out to dinner with guests.
(d) At fundraisers for the San Diego Center for Coastal Studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Oliver's car run out of gas?

2. How long do Jane and Oliver date before they make love?

3. What would their father do when he came home drunk?

4. What does Jane remember about being ten years old with her father?

5. Why does Sam react rudely, driving Jane from the table?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hadley reveal about Sam? How does the reader know that Hadley is attracted to Rebecca?

2. What happens when Jane and Rebecca meet Joseph Tall Neck?

3. How does Jane feel about her father's death?

4. What happens when Rebecca arrives at the Spregg home?

5. How does Oliver learn about where his wife and daughter are headed?

6. Why does Oliver think he has to intercept Jane and Rebecca before they reach Joley?

7. What does Oliver do, now that Rebecca and Jane have left?

8. What does Joley write in his letter to Jane at Fishtrap, Montana?

9. Why do Sam, Hadley, and Joley tell stupid jokes?

10. How do Jane and Rebecca get $400?

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