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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Will find Joe?
(a) Crushed under a tree.
(b) In a ditch.
(c) In a small cell.
(d) In a bar.

2. What does Henry tell Myra in answer to her request?
(a) He will find the father.
(b) He may not be able to help.
(c) He refuses to help.
(d) He can help.

3. Why doesn'tt Henry meet Claire in Denver before she leaves for college?
(a) He cannot find her address.
(b) He never makes it to Denver.
(c) He hears a man with her.
(d) He gets drunk and passes out.

4. What do Henry and Will discuss when they walk along the fence, in Chapter 22?
(a) Will's financial prospects.
(b) Will's store's career.
(c) Will's resistance to modernization.
(d) Will's back taxes.

5. What augury does Henry find in the hotel, in the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Something about the river and time.
(b) Something about death and transformation.
(c) Something about help from the hills.
(d) Something about cats and water.

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

7. Where does Henry have his interview?
(a) The Welfare Department.
(b) The highway department's offices.
(c) Okie Joe's.
(d) Gibbs Pratt's home.

8. Why does Lorraine call Will, at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) Joe is in jail.
(b) Henry is in jail.
(c) Will's son is injured.
(d) Joe has not come home from lumbering.

9. Who does Henry think about when he arrives in St. Louis?
(a) General Custer.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Lewis and Clark.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

11. What has Will given up farming for?
(a) Running a store.
(b) Selling insurance.
(c) Logging.
(d) Working in a factory.

12. What does Henry say he is bringing to Will?
(a) His savings.
(b) His will.
(c) His secret.
(d) His last manuscript.

13. As a former ranger, what does Henry speak to groups about?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Wildlife.
(c) The history of the land.
(d) The fragility of the ecosystem.

14. What do Henry and Myra do when he gets to New York?
(a) Make love.
(b) Fight.
(c) Sail to Europe.
(d) Drive to Maine.

15. What does Myra ask Henry to do for her?
(a) Help her get an abortion.
(b) Help her find the father.
(c) Give her money.
(d) Act as the father to the baby she's pregnant with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will's house have?

2. What does Henry do after Claire does not show up?

3. Where does Claire agree to meet Henry?

4. How is Henry's health when he arrives in St. Louis?

5. What does Claire tell Henry she thinks about him?

(see the answer keys)

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