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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long do Joe and Will hardly speak?
(a) A few days.
(b) Months.
(c) Years.
(d) Weeks.

2. How does Claire pick Henry up?
(a) She asked for directions.
(b) She asked him to sleep with her.
(c) She asked for a Band-Aid.
(d) She asked him for a light.

3. What does Henry think will happen when he dies?
(a) He will be in heaven.
(b) He will be nothing.
(c) He will be in purgatory.
(d) He will be reborn.

4. What accident does Henry cause on his way out of the interview?
(a) He drives into a ditch.
(b) He hits a cow.
(c) He crashes through a retaining wall.
(d) He drives into a house.

5. How does Henry feel about the job Bat Lanahan found for him?
(a) Cushy.
(b) Intriguing.
(c) Pleasant enough.
(d) Intolerable.

6. What does Henry think might break down before the truck does?
(a) Himself.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Solstice.
(d) The road.

7. Where does Will find work after returning from the war?
(a) Driving trucks for the lumber company.
(b) Mining.
(c) Lumbering.
(d) Building roads.

8. What does Will say when he sees Henry on the tracks?
(a) That no one told him to leave.
(b) He yells at him about his faults.
(c) That they don't want to see him again.
(d) He gives him some money for the road.

9. What draws Will's attention to Joe?
(a) A mourning dove.
(b) A crow.
(c) A sapsucker.
(d) A woodpecker.

10. Where does Claire go when she leaves Denver?
(a) New York.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) California.

11. What does Henry find work doing, at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Park ranger.
(b) Writing.
(c) Highway department foreman.
(d) Logging.

12. What does Claire play at the event she invites Henry to?
(a) Clarinet.
(b) The savant.
(c) The fool.
(d) Violin.

13. What is Henry surprised to find on the land?
(a) Man-made lakes.
(b) Telephone poles.
(c) Farms.
(d) Clear-cuts.

14. What happens when Henry tries to buy oil with his card, in Chapter 23?
(a) He is retained.
(b) He is refused.
(c) He is arrested.
(d) The clerk lets him go.

15. Why does Henry keep walking when he sees his family, in Chapter 26?
(a) He doesn't want to bring them his troubles.
(b) He doesn't feel well enough to join them.
(c) His brother chases him away.
(d) He is too ashamed of himself to join them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe ask Will for when Will finds him?

2. Where does Henry plan to stop on his way to his job?

3. Where is Henry when he calls Claire, at the beginning of Chapter 20?

4. Where are Henry and Claire married?

5. Where does Bat Lanahan find Henry a job?

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