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

2. What do Willard and Arvin do for hours each day?
(a) Work on doing little things for Charlotte.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sit and talk with Charlotte.
(d) Work on remodeling the house.

3. Why doesn't Arvin's father respond how Arvin expected?
(a) Arvin's father is too deeply into praying.
(b) Arvin's father has fallen asleep.
(c) Arvin's father does not hear well and heard something different.
(d) Arvin's father thinks his brother has too many children already but would not say so.

4. How does Sandy think she got a venereal disease?
(a) From having sex with an old drunk.
(b) From her husband.
(c) From having sex with an Iowa farm boy.
(d) From having sex with a soldier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willard realize is not working to help Charlotte?

2. What does Willard nail to a cross in the prayer clearing?

3. What does Willard decide he is going to do after watching his father?

4. What does Willard begin doing again?

5. Upon what are Arvin and his father seated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the two hunters loudly discuss and what is Willard's reaction?

2. 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?

3. Where is Arvin joining his father?

4. Why does Emma believe God will not hold her to her bargain about Willard?

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

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

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

8. What does Willard do one day that greatly upsets Arvin?

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

10. Who are Sandy and Carl and what are they doing?

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