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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Willard realize is not working to help Charlotte?
(a) The stress of living in Dunlap's house.
(b) The oncologist.
(c) The medicine.
(d) Animal sacrifices.

3. What does Arvin watch Willard do?
(a) Savagely beat the man who admired Willard's wife.
(b) Buys the farmer's extra bull.
(c) Buys Arvin's mother a bolt of silk.
(d) Cheats a man out of some money.

4. Who says she is going to marry Roy?
(a) Helen.
(b) Emma.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) No one.

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

6. Who is Charlotte?
(a) Arvin's mother.
(b) Arvin's oldest sister.
(c) Arvin's younger sister.
(d) Arvin's aunt who is married to the uncle who stops by.

7. What is Henry Dunlap's profession?
(a) A police chief.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A fireman.

8. What does Arvin expect of his father after hearing the statement about Charlotte?
(a) To go to town after Charlotte immediately.
(b) To ignore the statement.
(c) To respond in some way.
(d) To congratulate the speaker.

9. How does Willard account for the large amount of blood in the clearing when he kills Dunlap?
(a) Says he killed a wolf.
(b) Says he killed a young calf.
(c) He does not say anything to anyone about it.
(d) Says he killed a groundhog.

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

11. About what does Dunlap taunt Willard?
(a) The disparity in the two men's incomes.
(b) That Willard's wife has her eye on Dunlap.
(c) That Arvin is small for his age.
(d) That Dunlap will never sell the house to a loser.

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

13. Where does Willard later take Arvin?
(a) To the dry goods store.
(b) To the local bar.
(c) To visit the farmer next to their property.
(d) To the docks to buy merchandise.

14. Who is Willard?
(a) Arvin's father.
(b) Arvin's uncle.
(c) The preacher.
(d) The schoolmaster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Arvin's father respond how Arvin expected?

2. Why is Willard's mother relieved at what she learns about Roy?

3. What does Lee ask Arvin?

4. How does Arvin think he is viewed by others in the area?

5. In what does Carl have faith?

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