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

2. Where does Myra go to when she leaves Henry?
(a) California.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

4. What does Myra say when Henry calls to ask her to run away with him, in Chapter 23?
(a) That she's happily married.
(b) That she never wants to hear from him.
(c) That she'll never forgive him.
(d) That it's too late for them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry remember, at the beginning of Chapter 14?

2. How is Solstice looking, at the beginning of Chapter 21?

3. Where does Will find Joe?

4. What does Henry remember about working with Joe?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in Henry's visit to Glenwood Springs to see Claire?

2. What are Henry's thoughts when he muses on death, in chapter 17?

3. Describe Solstice's death.

4. Describe Henry's interview with Gibbs Pratt.

5. Describe Joe's death.

6. What had Will done in the war?

7. Why does Henry return to New York?

8. Describe Henry's state, in Chapter 13, as he drives eastward.

9. Describe the scene in which Henry met Claire.

10. What gets Henry out of New York?

(see the answer keys)

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