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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. How does Sam apologize for the sheep shearing incident?
(a) He says he is sorry.
(b) He makes her dinner.
(c) He buys her new clothes.
(d) He offers his mother's clothes for her to wear.

2. 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.

3. Who finds Jane in the neighbor's yard?
(a) Jane's father.
(b) Joley.
(c) A policeman.
(d) The neighbor.

4. Why are Oliver and Jane's plans for a European honeymoon changed?
(a) When Oliver learns that there are beached whales in Ogunquit.
(b) When Oliver gets a better deal on a Hawaiian cruise.
(c) When Jane learns she is pregnant.
(d) When Oliver runs out of money.

5. What does Oliver do when a humpback whale is beached at Gloucester, Massachusetts?
(a) He calls friends to check on it.
(b) He goes to see it.
(c) He ignores it.
(d) He calls the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and tells them what he needs and that he is on his way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane ask Sam to do, regarding Hadley?

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

3. How does Jane's mother initially react when she tells her about her father molesting her?

4. How does Jane respond when Oliver orders her to get Rebecca so they can leave?

5. What does Rebecca do when she realizes what has happened between her mother and Sam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sam's view of the sheep shearing incident?

2. How do Sam's actions show he is interested in Jane?

3. How does Hadley die?

4. How does Oliver try to show Jane and Rebecca where he is?

5. How does this scene become slightly awkward?

6. How does Oliver help a whale?

7. What do Sam and Hadley discuss over beer?

8. What does Oliver do at the Blue Diner?

9. What takes place in the last moments between Sam and Jane?

10. What does Joley say in his letter to Jane?

(see the answer keys)

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