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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. How does Sissy compare to the girls in the home?
(a) She is entering puberty.
(b) She is about 10.
(c) She just turned 21.
(d) She is the age of many of the girls in the home.

2. What do Son and Thomas drink after dinner?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Beer.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Coffee.

3. Who finds June dead in her house?
(a) Mother Corinne.
(b) Sissy.
(c) Sister Evangeline.
(d) Rose.

4. Where does Rose open up and talk to Sissy?
(a) In a coffee shop.
(b) In the grocery.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the car.

5. Son tells Sissy not to tell Thomas ______________.
(a) where the legal papers are.
(b) where the safe is.
(c) where her mother is.
(d) how old she is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Son dream about on the first night spent in the farmhouse?

2. Who waits with the person in #122 until the funeral director arrives?

3. Why is Son afraid to meet Thomas Clinton?

4. What nickname does Son call Cecilia?

5. Why is Rose angry when she arrives at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sissy realize about her mother when they are driving in the car?

2. What does Sissy think Son is trying to hide during the conversations with Thomas?

3. How does Son's injury make Sissy even more resentful of her mother's distant behavior?

4. What problem does Sissy have now that she is about the same age as the girls coming to St. Elizabeth's?

5. What perspective does Sissy take on people leaving after Thomas is gone?

6. What is the reason that Rose stays so distant from Sissy?

7. How does Son's girlfriend, Cecilia, die, and why does he feel such guilt about it?

8. When did Sissy learn that she was not adopted?

9. What circumstances prompt Rose's abrupt departure?

10. Who is the sole beneficiary of June's estate?

(see the answer keys)

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