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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 realize is not working to help Charlotte?
(a) The oncologist.
(b) The stress of living in Dunlap's house.
(c) Animal sacrifices.
(d) The medicine.

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

3. About whom does Theodore sing?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Emma.
(c) Willard.
(d) Roy.

4. About what does Dunlap taunt Willard?
(a) That Dunlap will never sell the house to a loser.
(b) The disparity in the two men's incomes.
(c) That Willard's wife has her eye on Dunlap.
(d) That Arvin is small for his age.

5. What does Bodecker recall about a night he passed out drunk?
(a) Sandy tells him she is going to kill herself.
(b) Sandy drives him home.
(c) Sandy takes his money.
(d) Sandy tells him about her and Carl's trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sandy do with the first hitchhiker mentioned?

2. How is Charlotte's funeral described?

3. For what does Willard ask God regularly?

4. What happens after Arvin feeds Jack?

5. How old is Arvin when Willard decides to move?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Describe the church revival Willard attends with Emma.

4. What does Willard confess to Emma and what is Emma's reaction?

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

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. About what does Deputy Sheriff Bodecker fantasize?

9. What happens when Arvin turns ten and how does Willard plan to fix it?

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

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