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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. About what does Dunlap hint among his friends?
(a) That he'd like to have sex with Charlotte.
(b) That he hired a man to kill his law partner.
(c) That he'd like to run for State Senate.
(d) That he'd like to move to the city.

5. With what does Willard become obsessed after learning of Charlotte's illness?
(a) Buying the house for Charlotte.
(b) Saving Charlotte through prayer.
(c) Making Charlotte's last year wonderful.
(d) Getting the best medical care for Charlotte.

6. How does Arvin think he is viewed by others in the area?
(a) As a kind floormat.
(b) As arrogant.
(c) As an outsider.
(d) As a brilliant student.

7. What does Carl believe he is doing?
(a) He is on a religious mission.
(b) He is saving his wife's soul.
(c) He is educating Sandy about the great United States.
(d) He is helping the population explosion.

8. Who does Willard shoot and kill as a mercy?
(a) A soldier who is smashed under a tank.
(b) A soldier who is skinned and crucified.
(c) A young boy who has lost the lower half of his body.
(d) A soldier who is fatally wounded by a grenade.

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

10. What is one characteristic mentioned about Sandy Henderson?
(a) Honest.
(b) Fat.
(c) Skinny.
(d) Kind.

11. What does Arvin say does not work?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Telling the truth.
(c) Nothing works.
(d) Being good.

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

13. Where has Sandy been driving?
(a) In the New England States.
(b) Across the South.
(c) In the Pacific Northwest.
(d) Across the Midwest.

14. 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) Stand up for himself.
(d) Start saying no.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Hank Bell?

2. What happens despite the sacrifice of the lawyer?

3. What does Carl store in his glove box?

4. What does Arvin consider the event that he witnesses?

5. What is the result of how others in the area see Arvin?

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