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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Andy's plans?
(a) Andy is going to get married.
(b) He is going to own the town store.
(c) Jack is going to sell Andy some land.
(d) He is going off to college.

2. What happens right before Jack decides to leave the store?
(a) Has a brief interchange with Burley Coulter.
(b) Forgets to pay for the items he bought.
(c) Trips over the leg of the chair.
(d) Sees an old girlfriend.

3. After dinner, what do most of the men and women do?
(a) Go into town to a dance.
(b) Go home and go to sleep.
(c) Go back to the fields to continue working.
(d) Drink whiskey.

4. What are Mat's feelings concerning Lightning Berlew?
(a) Lightning Berlew is one of Mat's best friends.
(b) Mat doesn't like Lightning Berlew.
(c) Lightning Berlew is the only friend Mat has ever had.
(d) Mat considers Lightning Berlew a good business man but not a friend.

5. What is the reason for Mat's feelings toward Lightning Berlew?
(a) They have been through very difficult times together.
(b) Lightning is the smartest man Mat knows.
(c) Mat likes Lightning but not Lightning's wife because she is a crook.
(d) He is not hard working.

6. What is a horse breaker?
(a) A rancher who can separate a large group of wild horses.
(b) A person who trains a horse and makes it fit for whatever kind of work it is supposed to do.
(c) Someone who teaches people to saddle horses.
(d) A veterinary specialist who kills horses that are dying.

7. Where is the Berlew's new house?
(a) Cincinnati.
(b) Clevland.
(c) Port Williams.
(d) Kentucky.

8. What is easy for Jack to remember?
(a) The statistical analysis of his business.
(b) Business figures from decades ago.
(c) Present day business figures.
(d) Math facts from third grade.

9. What physical gesture does Mat make toward Jack once in the store?
(a) Mat puts his hand on Jack's head.
(b) Mat shakes Jack's hand.
(c) Mat hugs Jack.
(d) Mat puts his hand on Jack's shoulder.

10. Where does Hannah take her children?
(a) To Nancy's house.
(b) To Jack's house.
(c) To Will's house.
(d) To Mat's house.

11. How does Mat describe his relationship with Jack?
(a) Jack and Mat have always been competitive with one another.
(b) Jack has not been a good friend to Mat.
(c) Jack and Mat were inseperable for a time.
(d) Jack has always been there for Mat when he needed him.

12. As Jack walks along after leaving the store, he recalls being a man of what age?
(a) 22.
(b) 28.
(c) 5.
(d) 18.

13. When the novel opens, where is Jack standing?
(a) In his bedroom.
(b) On his porch.
(c) Next to his house.
(d) In his living room.

14. As the novel opens, what is Jack's age?
(a) In his 20s.
(b) In his 90s.
(c) In his 40s.
(d) In his 30s.

15. When Mat goes to Lightning's house, what does he tell Lightning to do?
(a) Find his wife and go into town.
(b) Take the tractor and the wagon and help out some others.
(c) Look through the papers of the business.
(d) Go back to Mat's house and help out with Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jack buy his team of mules?

2. Why is Jack fond of Hannah?

3. How old was jack when his mom died?

4. What does Mat's wife, Margaret, suggest to Mat regarding Jack?

5. How does Jack remember himself as a young man?

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