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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Sandy confused?
(a) Why Carl wants her to abstain from sex.
(b) Why Carl is so good to her now after beating her.
(c) Where the hitchhiker went.
(d) How she got where she is.

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

3. What do Willard and Arvin do for hours each day?
(a) Sit and talk with Charlotte.
(b) Work on remodeling the house.
(c) Work on doing little things for Charlotte.
(d) Pray.

4. What is Hank Bell closing up in Chapter 8?
(a) The bookstore.
(b) The sheriff's office.
(c) Maude's Store.
(d) The church building.

5. What does Bodecker recall about a night he passed out drunk?
(a) Sandy tells him about her and Carl's trip.
(b) Sandy takes his money.
(c) Sandy tells him she is going to kill herself.
(d) Sandy drives him home.

6. About whom does Theodore sing?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Emma.
(c) Roy.
(d) Willard.

7. Who is the first hitchhiker mentioned in Chapter 10?
(a) A hippie.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A young girl.
(d) An old drunk.

8. Why does Willard start killing animals?
(a) He is keeping them out of the flower garden which Charlotte enjoys.
(b) He is teaching Arvin how to hunt.
(c) He is convinced that blood sacrifices will save Charlotte.
(d) He is angry at God.

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

10. Who stops by where Arvin and his father are?
(a) Two hunters.
(b) One of Arvin's uncles.
(c) The game warden.
(d) The pastor.

11. What does Emma learn about Willard that makes her believe God has truly forgiven her for breaking her bargain with God?
(a) That Willard has a good job.
(b) That Charlotte is the daughter of a preacher.
(c) That Willard's wife just gave birth to a boy.
(d) That Helen is happy.

12. How old is Arvin when Charlotte is diagnosed with cancer?
(a) 22.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

13. Why doesn't Arvin's father respond how Arvin expected?
(a) Arvin's father has fallen asleep.
(b) Arvin's father thinks his brother has too many children already but would not say so.
(c) Arvin's father is too deeply into praying.
(d) Arvin's father does not hear well and heard something different.

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

15. What does Sandy do with the first hitchhiker mentioned?
(a) Shoots her.
(b) Gives her some money.
(c) Shoots him.
(d) Initiates sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Willard?

2. What is Sandy's relation to Lee Bodecker?

3. Who is Lee Bodecker?

4. Who is Charlotte?

5. Where does Arvin join his father?

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