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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what does Prentiss refuse to do?
(a) Move from Landry's side.
(b) Eat.
(c) Talk to the sheriff.
(d) Drink.

2. What do neither Prentiss or Caleb really want to have to use?
(a) Knives.
(b) Guns.
(c) Their oratory skills.
(d) Cattle prods.

3. What does Hackstedde give Prentiss to eat?
(a) His scraps.
(b) Stale bread.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Steak.

4. Who is the man in Old Ox who is always asleep?
(a) Frank.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Ray Bittle.
(d) Henry Jordan.

5. Why does August tell Caleb he has been avoiding him in Chapter 12?
(a) He does not love Caleb any longer.
(b) He really loves his fiancee.
(c) He needs the money from his inheritance.
(d) His father has figured out their true feelings for each other.

6. What had Prentiss considered buying in town?
(a) Bread.
(b) A calendar.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Music.

7. In Chapter 13, who does George immediately assume has killed Landry?
(a) August.
(b) Caleb.
(c) Wade.
(d) Ted.

8. If Prentiss did not escape from prison, what would have happened to him?
(a) He would have gotten a life sentence.
(b) He would have been sentenced to one year of hard labor.
(c) He would have been freed anyway.
(d) He would have been hanged.

9. Where does Caleb steal a horse from?
(a) The Weblers' stables.
(b) Silas's.
(c) His aunt's house.
(d) Henry's.

10. What kind of coffin does Isabelle suggest for Landry?
(a) Cherry.
(b) Hickory.
(c) Birch.
(d) Oak.

11. What does Prentiss do to Wade?
(a) Spits on him.
(b) Shoots him.
(c) Hits him.
(d) Kills him.

12. What does Prentiss learn from Landry about the language of grief?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) It is different for everyone.
(c) It is futile.
(d) It is often nothing more than silence.

13. Why does George insist on accompanying Prentiss and Caleb at least part of the way on their journey?
(a) Isabelle makes him do it.
(b) He knows the land better than they do.
(c) He has the money.
(d) He is in great shape and they will go faster with him along.

14. Where does Isabelle find Prentiss the morning after Landry's killing?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In the barn.
(c) In the peanut field.
(d) By the pond.

15. Where does Caleb's recurring erotic dream occur?
(a) In a trench.
(b) In the Weblers' stables.
(c) In the field.
(d) By the pond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the phrase that Isabelle keeps thinking in her head at the end of Chapter 22?

2. Who does George think might give the case with Landry a fair hearing?

3. What does Isabelle carry with her in Chapter 19?

4. What does Isabelle see in her fields a few days after the three men go on the run in Chapter 22?

5. Why do the Walkers' neighbors refuse to help George in Chapter 15?

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