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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. According to Fay in Chapter 4, what did her mother spend all day doing after Taft's death?
(a) Folding his shirts.
(b) Praying at their family church.
(c) Sitting on the unfinished deck.
(d) Sleeping.

2. In Chapter 5, Ruth has just moved back to Memphis from where?
(a) New York.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Louisville.
(d) Detroit.

3. What does Taft feel his in-laws use against him?
(a) Their faith.
(b) Their worldliness.
(c) Their wealth.
(d) Their happy marriage.

4. What is obvious about Carl's disposition in Chapter 2?
(a) He is highly caffeinated.
(b) He is stoned.
(c) He is standoffish.
(d) He is autistic.

5. How does John know the woman at Rum Boogie Cafe?
(a) She is Marion's cousin.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a regular at Muddy's.
(d) She is a alderwoman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John tell Ruth to meet him in Chapter 6?

2. Who does the applicant in Chapter 1 remind John Nickel of?

3. Who does John Nickel imagine as he walks through Fay's house?

4. How does Ruth treat Fay in Chapter 6?

5. What is Levon Taft's day job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Carl play at Muddy's as time does on?

2. Describe John and Fay's first kiss.

3. Describe the frantic call that John gets at the end of the Chapter 1?

4. What do John and Fay do at the battlefield in Chapter 4?

5. How does Ruth interact with Fay and John in Chapter 6?

6. What does John imagine at the end of Chapter 4?

7. Who does Fay introduce John to Chapter 2?

8. Describe the interchange John has with Cyndi in Chapter 4?

9. Why did John return to Marion?

10. What happened to the Taft family after the patriarch's death?

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