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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Arvin get after high school graduation?
(a) In the fruit orchards.
(b) On a road crew.
(c) With the forestry department.
(d) On a fishing boat.

2. What does Teagardin use to illustrate a sermon on honoring the poor?
(a) Chicken livers.
(b) A penny.
(c) Fish.
(d) Loaves of bread.

3. What work is Roy doing?
(a) Picking fruit.
(b) Picking cotton.
(c) He cannot find work.
(d) Fishing boat crew.

4. What does Arvin do when the car comes to a halt?
(a) Puts his gun to Sandy's head.
(b) Tells Carl to put the gun down.
(c) Calls the sheriff on his cell phone.
(d) Readies his Luger.

5. What does Sandy do after Arvin is out of the car?
(a) Asks him to call the sheriff.
(b) Asks him to run away with him.
(c) Fires her gun at him.
(d) Asks him to kill her.

6. What picture does Carl put in his wallet?
(a) Sandy cradling the head of the model.
(b) Sandy nude and tied spread eagled.
(c) His mother dying.
(d) The young soldier just before he comes into Sandy.

7. What is one thing Theodore dreams?
(a) Of Flapjack the Clown.
(b) Of living in the mountains.
(c) Of returning home and seeing his mama.
(d) Of Leonora.

8. When does Sandy have her first ever orgasm?
(a) On her and Carl's wedding night.
(b) She has never had an orgasm.
(c) The first time she and Carl pick up a man for sex.
(d) When making pornographic films in California.

9. What does Lenora wish for Arvin?
(a) To marry her.
(b) To be happy.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To come to Jesus.

10. What does Carl wait for to go to his box of photos?
(a) Lee to pick up Sandy to take her to the doctor's.
(b) Sandy to fall asleep.
(c) Sandy to go to her job.
(d) Lee to leave them alone.

11. Why does Sandy want to do laundry?
(a) She wants to pass word to her brother at a pay phone.
(b) She wants a feeling of normalcy.
(c) She says Carl stinks.
(d) She wants to try to get away from Carl.

12. Where are Roy and Theodore?
(a) In a wild west show.
(b) In a traveling carnival.
(c) In jail.
(d) In Key West hawking drugs.

13. What does Joe ask Carl and Sandy?
(a) To borrow money.
(b) About their plans.
(c) To watch his cat.
(d) To take his picture.

14. What does Arvin turn toward the wall in the motel room where he stays?
(a) A picture of Jesus.
(b) A cross.
(c) A picture of a man that reminds him of his father.
(d) A picture of a girl that reminds him of Lenora.

15. Where does Carl start hanging out regularly?
(a) The White Cow Diner.
(b) The pool hall.
(c) The bookie office.
(d) The Sheriff's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Carl give for turning down a side road?

2. What does Lenora realize eventually?

3. What does Arvin find on Carl's body?

4. Who is pictured as thin and pale in an unbecoming bonnet?

5. What does Carl do with his box of photos?

(see the answer keys)

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