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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the newspaper editor's last name?
(a) Downey.
(b) Dewey.
(c) Doohan.
(d) Dudley.

2. Chapter 7 tells the story of who falling into depression?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Magnus.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Beverly.

3. How many years does chapter 6 span?
(a) 12.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

4. Who has died, in chapter 6, besides Barker?
(a) Magnus.
(b) Warren.
(c) Cuyler.
(d) Daisy.

5. The peddler said he could feel Daisy's what when she was born?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Hands.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Feet.

6. What possible reason does Fraidy give for the depression
(a) Loss of a child.
(b) Sexual repression.
(c) Loss of a husband.
(d) Loss of a parent.

7. What did Cuyler die from?
(a) Auto accident.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Electrocution.

8. What is the publication mentioned in the chapter?
(a) The Ledger.
(b) The Reader.
(c) The Recorder.
(d) The Gavel.

9. Before she dies, Daisy spends hours doing what?
(a) Explaining her history to her children.
(b) Rambling about nothing in particular.
(c) Apologizing to friends and family.
(d) Foretelling what will happen after her death.

10. Daisy is moved from a hospital to where?
(a) Victoria's home.
(b) A convalescent home.
(c) Warren's home.
(d) Joan's home.

11. Magnus was a local celebrity for being able to recite what, word for word?
(a) Moby Dick.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) the Declaration of Independence.
(d) the Constitution.

12. Who has twins in chapter 9?
(a) Alice.
(b) Joan.
(c) Warren.
(d) Victoria.

13. Daisy foresees that her children will make certain inferences based on what?
(a) Daisy's will.
(b) Possessions and documents they find.
(c) Daisy's friendships during her life.
(d) The way Daisy treated them in life.

14. Daisy has a heart attack and subsequent failure of what?
(a) Kidneys.
(b) Liver.
(c) Lungs.
(d) Heart.

15. Chapter 6 is composed of letters to whom?
(a) Magnus.
(b) Barker.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Cuyler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of chapter 9?

2. How many people are in Daisy's group that she plays with?

3. What possible reason does Beverly give for the depression?

4. Among the lists in the chapter are what?

5. What is the name of Daisy's childhood housekeeper?

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