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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Henry use his credit card on his trip?
(a) At grocery stores.
(b) At places without electronic card machines.
(c) At gas stations.
(d) At bars.

2. How did the game Henry and Will and their friends played against their rivals end?
(a) Henry's team won.
(b) The game was never finished.
(c) The rival team won.
(d) In a tie.

3. Where is Myra when Henry wakes up after the party?
(a) She is asleep in the other room.
(b) She left with her friend.
(c) She is still drinking.
(d) She has moved out.

4. Who gave Henry his first ride?
(a) A family.
(b) A preacher.
(c) A trucker.
(d) Drunken sailors.

5. Where is Henry sent instead of Japan?
(a) Philippines.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) China.

6. Who was Milly Cornflower Lightcap?
(a) Henry's sister.
(b) Henry's mother.
(c) Henry's grandmother.
(d) A medicine woman.

7. What does Henry sell to Don Williams?
(a) His truck.
(b) His novel manuscript.
(c) His dog.
(d) A gun.

8. What does Henry tell Myra about the fact that amenities are missing in the building?
(a) They can't afford anything nicer than this.
(b) He wants the experience of living among poor people.
(c) There are no other places available at the time.
(d) It is the start of their life of voluntary simplicity.

9. What response does Henry get when he calls Melanie?
(a) She wants to fight with him.
(b) He is rebuffed.
(c) She invites him over.
(d) They have a bittersweet conversation about their past together.

10. What does Henry's mother see in Henry's personality?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Tenacity.
(c) Sentimentality.
(d) Weakness.

11. What does Henry roast for his housewarming party?
(a) A chicken.
(b) A calf.
(c) A pig.
(d) A goat.

12. What is set on fire during the housewarming party?
(a) Myra's art.
(b) The house.
(c) Henry's car.
(d) The outhouse.

13. What city is Henry approaching when he notices the poverty of the area?
(a) Louisville.
(b) Santa Fe.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Gallup.

14. What does Henry discover when he calls work, in Chapter 3?
(a) The office is being closed.
(b) He got a bad performance review.
(c) The boss has already replaced him.
(d) He's been fired.

15. Why did Henry begin hitchhiking?
(a) It was an effective way to avoid getting drafted, if no one could find him.
(b) His car broke down and it was the only way to get home.
(c) He didn't have any money, but wanted to get out of his hometown.
(d) If he was going to die for his country, he wanted to see it first.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Don Williams give Henry?

2. Where are Henry and Myra arriving, in the scene Henry remembers, in Chapter 10?

3. Where does Henry remember, in the beginning of Chapter 10?

4. Who is Elaine?

5. What does Henry lament in Santa Fe?

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