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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. Where does Willard later take Arvin?
(a) To the docks to buy merchandise.
(b) To the dry goods store.
(c) To the local bar.
(d) To visit the farmer next to their property.

2. How does Arvin think he is viewed by others in the area?
(a) As a brilliant student.
(b) As an outsider.
(c) As arrogant.
(d) As a kind floormat.

3. What does Arvin do for hours one night when his father sends him to the prayer log?
(a) Sleeps on the blood soaked ground.
(b) Cries.
(c) Curses his father.
(d) Shouts his prayers.

4. What does Carl make hitchhikers think?
(a) That Carl thinks of them like a father.
(b) That Sandy is going to kill herself if she does not have sex soon.
(c) That Carl will kill them if they don't have sex with his wife.
(d) That Carl is impotent.

5. With whom is it rumored that Edith is involved sexually?
(a) The town's general contractor.
(b) The principal at the school.
(c) A black handyman.
(d) The preacher who is married.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the bus make a stop on Willard's way home?

2. About what does Dunlap hint among his friends?

3. Who stops by where Arvin and his father are?

4. What is the result of how others in the area see Arvin?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the church revival Willard attends with Emma.

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

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

7. How does Roy end up killing Helen?

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

9. With whom is Henry's wife committing adultery and with whom does Henry say he'd like to commit adultery?

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

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