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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willard explain to his son about Willard's actions?
(a) He wants to increase the cow herd so Willard has some inheritance.
(b) His mother wants to go to her niece's wedding looking nicely.
(c) It is sometimes necessary to choose the time and place to fight back.
(d) He is cheating a scoundrel who deserves it.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Willard?

2. Who is Jack?

3. Who is said to have decayed teeth?

4. What does Carl store in his glove box?

5. Where is Willard going?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Roy do that causes the crowd to panic?

2. From whom does Willard rent a house and how does the man verbally abuse Willard?

3. What interrupts Hank Bell's daydreaming?

4. What does Willard do after Charlotte's funeral?

5. At what does Dunlap hint to Willard one day when Willard goes to pay his rent?

6. Where is Willard going and what is he thinking about as he travels in Chapter 1?

7. Why does Willard decide to move his family and how does Charlotte feel about the idea?

8. How long have the Russells lived in Mitchell Flats and how does that affect the townpeople's attitude towards them and Arvin's time at school?

9. Who is closing Maude's Store, and about what is he fantasizing?

10. What does Arvin start to do when he hears someone nearby and what is his father's reaction? How does Arvin feel what his father tells him to do?

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