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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. Why does Son eat dinner in the kitchen each night?
(a) To be near Rose.
(b) To get away from all the dining room noise.
(c) To be where it is warm.
(d) To get leftovers.

2. What are Son's feelings about being married to Rose?
(a) Lucky.
(b) Angry.
(c) Burdened.
(d) Anxious.

3. What does Son have added to his tattoo?
(a) A cigar.
(b) The baby's birth date.
(c) An astrological sign.
(d) A heart.

4. What do the girls tell Mother Corinne about the births?
(a) The baby was deprived of oxygen.
(b) One baby died.
(c) The babies are stillborn.
(d) There was not enough time to go to the hospital.

5. What information does Rose want from the person in #27?
(a) Where to get an abortion.
(b) What to expect during the pregnancy.
(c) Where to go to have her baby.
(d) How painful delivery will be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What structure does Nelson build near the spring?

2. What did Rose's mother do after Rose got married?

3. What makes many of the girls especially homesick?

4. To what state is Rose headed after she leaves California?

5. Which one of the nuns used to deliver babies at the home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Rose decide to marry Thomas Clinton?

2. Why do Rose and Angie not think they will have to help Beatrice with her plan?

3. What does Rose decide to do after the trauma of Beatrice's experience?

4. What goes through Rose's mind as she drives from California to Kentucky?

5. What did Rose think a sign from God would guide her to someday?

6. Who was the girl named Cecilia that Son got his tattoo for?

7. How do Angie and Rose differ in their feelings about being pregnant?

8. What goal did Beatrice accomplish by having her babies at the home?

9. How does Son show that he is interested in Rose?

10. What does Rose learn about what happens to a girl once she has had her baby and how does this add to the shame overshadowing the home?

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