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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. About what is Sandy confused?
(a) Why Carl is so good to her now after beating her.
(b) Why Carl wants her to abstain from sex.
(c) How she got where she is.
(d) Where the hitchhiker went.

2. Where does Arvin join his father?
(a) Cutting hay in the west field.
(b) Having a drink at a pub.
(c) At his father's regular evening prayer.
(d) Grooming the horses.

3. How old is Arvin when Charlotte is diagnosed with cancer?
(a) 22.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

4. Who is Charlotte?
(a) Arvin's aunt who is married to the uncle who stops by.
(b) Arvin's mother.
(c) Arvin's younger sister.
(d) Arvin's oldest sister.

5. Why does Willard decide to move?
(a) To get Arvin out of the city.
(b) To take up farming again.
(c) To find a better doctor for Emma.
(d) To buy a bigger house for the growing familly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Reverend Sykes characterized?

2. Where does Willard later take Arvin?

3. In what does Carl have faith?

4. What do Willard and Arvin do for hours each day?

5. About what do some of Dunlap's friends warn him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Carl convince young men to have sex with Sandy and what does Carl do after they have sex?

7. Where is Arvin joining his father?

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

9. About what does Deputy Sheriff Bodecker fantasize?

10. How does Roy end up killing Helen?

(see the answer keys)

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