2. What does Ernt consume himself with building on his property in Chapter 19?
(a) A wall.
(b) A goat pen.
(c) A boat dock.
(d) A smokehouse.

3. How does Leni travel to town to go and visit Matthew in Chapter 23?
(a) She takes the snow machine.
(b) Ernt drives her.
(c) She takes the truck.
(d) She takes the bus.

4. In what year does Chapter 27 open?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1992.

5. What genre of novels does Leni consume during the month of June in Chapter 19?
(a) French existentialist.
(b) Historical romance.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Crime thriller.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Chapter 16 begin?

2. Why is Ms. Rhodes going to Homer on the day she asks Leni to teach in Chapter 16?

3. What gift does Matthew give to Leni when he returns in Chapter 14?

4. How much money did Lily Walker have in her pocket when she left her family to go West?

5. What does Leni's court-appointed attorney tell her to do at the arraignment in Chapter 30?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leni respond when she visits Matthew at the care facility in Homer?

2. When and where does Part 3 of the novel begin?

3. What plan do Leni and Cora devise immediately after Ernt's death?

4. What guilt does Cora struggle with in Part 3?

5. What does Ernt begin building after Mad Earl's funeral? Why?

6. Why does Leni write a personal statement in Chapter 17? What is revealed in it?

7. What does Ernt do when he finds Matthew on his property coming to visit Leni in Part 2? How does Leni respond?

8. Why does Matthew become upset when Leni visits him in the end of the novel?

9. How does Tom react when he meets Leni at the jail?

10. How does Matthew become seriously injured in Part 2?

(see the answer keys)

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