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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one characteristic mentioned about Carl?
(a) Much younger than Sandy.
(b) Fat.
(c) Skinny.
(d) Gentle.

2. What does Roy empty over his head?
(a) A bottle of whiskey.
(b) A bottle of beer.
(c) A jar of spiders.
(d) A jar of snakes.

3. Who does Willard's mother promise God to marry Willard off to if he survived the war?
(a) Helen Hatton.
(b) Isabella Fernandez.
(c) Charlotte Willoughby.
(d) Helen Willoughby.

4. What type of gun does Willard own?
(a) A Colt .45.
(b) A German Luger.
(c) A Remington .30 rifle.
(d) A double-barrel shotgun.

5. Who is Lee Bodecker?
(a) A sheriff's deputy.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) A coronor.

6. What is Sandy's relation to Lee Bodecker?
(a) Sister.
(b) Mother.
(c) They are not related.
(d) Aunt.

7. What happens despite the sacrifice of the lawyer?
(a) Willard is not happy.
(b) Charlotte's condition worsens.
(c) Willard cannot buy the house the lawyer used to own.
(d) Arvin's health begins to fail.

8. What does Theodore say he once did?
(a) Tried to kill himself.
(b) Tried to get out of the draft.
(c) Tried to kill his brother.
(d) Hit his mother.

9. What does Carl make hitchhikers think?
(a) That Carl is impotent.
(b) That Sandy is going to kill herself if she does not have sex soon.
(c) That Carl thinks of them like a father.
(d) That Carl will kill them if they don't have sex with his wife.

10. Where does Willard put the animal carcasses?
(a) He burns them.
(b) In the prayer clearing.
(c) In the cellar.
(d) In the field to warn off the other animals from the garden.

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

12. 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 certain his father will do something when it's appropriate to do so.
(d) Arvin is disappointed.

13. What happens after Arvin feeds Jack?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Willard comes home and shoots Jack.
(c) Willard promises Arvin Jack will be safe.
(d) Willard knocks Arvin across the room for feeding stray children.

14. Where does Arvin join his father?
(a) Grooming the horses.
(b) At his father's regular evening prayer.
(c) Cutting hay in the west field.
(d) Having a drink at a pub.

15. What does Arvin find in the prayer clearing after waking?
(a) The prayer clearing cleaned up and his father sitting despondent.
(b) His father dead of suicide.
(c) His father crying.
(d) His father and another man fighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arvin say does not work?

2. Who is Jack?

3. About what do some of Dunlap's friends warn him?

4. About whom does Theodore sing?

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

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