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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willard begin doing again?
(a) Giving Charlotte quake medicines to try to help her.
(b) Making Arvin stay home from school to pray.
(c) Making Arvin stay with his grandmother during the week days.
(d) Sacrificing animals.

2. What is said about Charlotte?
(a) That Charlotte is keeping company with the wrong sort.
(b) That Charlotte is going to be hard to get married off being so plain.
(c) That Charlotte is expecting again.
(d) That Charlotte is the prettiest woman he'd ever seen.

3. What does Arvin's father tell Arvin to do about the situation with other?
(a) To stop thinking so highly of himself.
(b) Stand up for himself.
(c) Start saying no.
(d) Realize that others just are jealous of his brilliance and take it as a compliment.

4. Of what does a woman accuse Sandy?
(a) Of being a whore.
(b) Of coming on to her children.
(c) Of stealing some money.
(d) Of stealing some books from the library.

5. For what does Willard ask God regularly?
(a) Patience with Dunlap.
(b) His son to get bigger.
(c) The strength not to kill Dunlap.
(d) His wife to become pregnant again.

6. Who is said to have decayed teeth?
(a) A young man they pick up.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Lee.
(d) Carl.

7. What does Willard decide he is going to do after watching his father?
(a) Be as tough as his dad.
(b) Not tell his mother about the incident.
(c) Learn to be more forgiving than his father.
(d) Get his mother a bracelet to wear with the silk.

8. What does Willard nail to a cross in the prayer clearing?
(a) Jack's carcass.
(b) The miscarried baby Charlotte had the year before.
(c) The lawyer's rotting skeleton.
(d) The pages from a Bible.

9. How old is Arvin when Willard decides to move?
(a) 11.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

10. What does Carl do after Sandy falls asleep?
(a) Takes pictures of her nude body.
(b) Masturbates.
(c) Drinks.
(d) Writes a man in prison and describes his crimes.

11. How does Arvin feel about his father's reaction to the statement about Charlotte?
(a) Arvin admires his father's calmness.
(b) Arvin is outraged that his father is not listening.
(c) Arvin is disappointed.
(d) Arvin is certain his father will do something when it's appropriate to do so.

12. Who is Edith?
(a) Arvin's teacher at school.
(b) Charlotte's sister.
(c) Willard's sister.
(d) Dunlap's wife.

13. What does Arvin secretly wish?
(a) His father would send Arvin away for good.
(b) His mother would hurry and get well so Arvin could have a dog.
(c) His mother would just die.
(d) His mother would get well but his father would die.

14. About what does Willard's mother ask Willard to pray?
(a) Going back to the diner to talk to the waitress he met there.
(b) Whether to go to college or take over the farm.
(c) Going to seminary.
(d) Going into the priesthood in the Catholic church.

15. About what is Hank fantasizing?
(a) Owning the local flower shop.
(b) Going to Cincinnati for a baseball game.
(c) Playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
(d) Asking a certain girl out for a date.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl store in his glove box?

2. What does Arvin expect of his father after hearing the statement about Charlotte?

3. Who greets Willard when he arrives home?

4. How does Willard account for the large amount of blood in the clearing when he kills Dunlap?

5. Why does Willard start killing animals?

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