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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John talk about that brightens the mood of both Mollie and Paris?
(a) The memory of Philip
(b) Their new house and life together
(c) The fate of the farm
(d) The love and support of Sister

2. Where does Philip tell Paris he intends to go with him?
(a) Up north
(b) To the city
(c) Somewhere neither of them has been
(d) Out of the country

3. Why is Mollie the square root of wonderful?
(a) Because she is the source of family
(b) Because she is the source of passion
(c) Because she is the source of growing love
(d) Because she is the source of pride

4. Who has Mother Lovejoy transfered her affection to now that Philip has passed?
(a) Paris
(b) Mollie
(c) Sister
(d) John

5. How does Mother Lovejoy show that Paris is now the one she will love the most?
(a) By promising him a new life
(b) By promising him a new home
(c) By promising him a new father
(d) By promising him an inheritance

6. How does Paris respond to his father's idea of leaving?
(a) Paris becomes angry
(b) Paris is indifferent
(c) Paris strongly hesitates
(d) Paris agrees to go

7. What will John provide for his new family that Philip was unable to provide?
(a) A strict disciplinarian
(b) A friendship
(c) A strong foundation
(d) A loving father relationship

8. Who does John think Mollie must choose to save from a similar fate as Philip?
(a) Herself
(b) Paris
(c) Sister
(d) Mother Lovejoy

9. When does Philip wake after his last tirade?
(a) Late in the morning
(b) Noon
(c) At dawn
(d) Just before dawn

10. What does Paris go to do after his father discusses love and nature with him?
(a) To get ready to go fishing
(b) To wake Sister
(c) To rouse Mollie
(d) To find Mother Lovejoy

11. Who informs Philip that Mollie is prepared to leave?
(a) Sister
(b) Paris
(c) John
(d) Mother Lovejoy

12. How does Mollie describe the memory of Philip?
(a) Haunting
(b) Sad
(c) Depressing
(d) Confusing

13. What has Philip taken with him in the early morning after asking Paris to come away with him?
(a) A gun
(b) Mollie
(c) Paris
(d) The car

14. What has Mother Lovejoy chosen to use as a form of transportation as opposed to a taxi to get to the train station?
(a) A limousine
(b) A small bus
(c) A heliocopter
(d) A plane

15. What kind of surroundings does Philip prefer now as opposed to his boyhood?
(a) Philip prefers the forest
(b) Philip prefers people around him
(c) Philip prefers only the company of Mollie
(d) Philip prefers the darkness

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character tries most to console Mollie in her most desperate, grieving time?

2. What does Mother Lovejoy have tremendous distaste for in terms of the expression of emotions?

3. What subject does John have a penchant for?

4. What does Philip now see love and nature to be?

5. What does Paris think that all the talk of the new house sounds like?

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