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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. In what does Carl have faith?
(a) God.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Omens.
(d) Sandy.

2. What does Theodore bring to a church revival?
(a) His guitar.
(b) His harmonica.
(c) His autoharp.
(d) His Bible.

3. Who greets Willard when he arrives home?
(a) No one.
(b) His mother and his two sisters.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother and uncle.

4. About what does Willard's mother ask Willard to pray?
(a) Going back to the diner to talk to the waitress he met there.
(b) Going into the priesthood in the Catholic church.
(c) Whether to go to college or take over the farm.
(d) Going to seminary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Reverend Sykes characterized?

2. What does Roy say God did for Roy?

3. How does Arvin feel about his father's reaction to the statement about Charlotte?

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

5. What happens despite the sacrifice of the lawyer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the young, attractive soldier that Carl and Sandy pick up?

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

3. How does Willard exact his revenge on the hunters later, and what does he say to Arvin about the incident?

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

5. Where is Arvin joining his father?

6. What does Willard decide to do as Charlotte's health deteriorates?

7. What happens one night when Willard wakes Arvin?

8. What does Bodecker learn when he visits the bar where Sandy works?

9. What would keep Willard from coming out to the prayer clearing and what does Arvin think of either activity?

10. 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?

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