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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 does the unusual amount of energy cause Mat to do?
(a) Build a shed.
(b) Construct a monument in Jack's honor.
(c) Stay up all night thinking about Jack.
(d) Drive all night long to be with Clara.

2. How does Rose die?
(a) She was killed by Ruth.
(b) A carriage ran over her.
(c) Burned alive.
(d) She has a heart attack.

3. What is Mat's wife always working on?
(a) Writing a book.
(b) Her kitchen.
(c) Their old, beat up car.
(d) A knitting project.

4. What did Mat ask to have read during the funeral?
(a) Poetry.
(b) A eulogy.
(c) Psalms.
(d) Proverbs.

5. After Ruth's death, what did Jack worry about?
(a) How he would live alone.
(b) Who would run the farm.
(c) Who would cook his food.
(d) How he could run the business that he had in town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became obvious to Jack regarding his relationship with Clara after Ruth's death?

2. What does Mat realize the Pettit's want?

3. How does Jack feel about television?

4. Where is the coffin set up?

5. How do the people who gather remember Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened after Jack found Ruth struggling to breathe?

2. What happened to Ben not long after Jack paid him the money Jack borrowed from him?

3. What significant event occurred in Jack's life after Rose's death?

4. What happened between Jack and Rose following Jack's decision that he made after the accident on the flooded road?

5. What kind of burial does Mat know Jack would have wanted to have?

6. What happens when Andy sees Jack right before he leaves?

7. What was Jack's relationship with his daughter Clara like?

8. What happens when Mat finds that Jack has not shown up for his normal routine?

9. What was Ruth's reaction when she discovered her husband's infidelities?

10. Why does Wheeler go to Jack's farm?

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