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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 is the river that runs through the region where the story takes place?
(a) Blackberry River.
(b) Mississippi River.
(c) Kentucky River.
(d) Ohio River.

2. What is Jackie's favorite book?
(a) Harry Potter.
(b) Little Women.
(c) Lord of the Rings.
(d) Charlotte's Web.

3. What is the name of the region where Rachel lives?
(a) Ohio Valley.
(b) Panhandle.
(c) Catskills.
(d) Appalachia.

4. What does Dillon beg Rachel not to do?
(a) Drive too fast.
(b) Go away to school.
(c) Go to the dance with someone else.
(d) Break up with him.

5. Who does Rachel marry?
(a) Philip.
(b) Fred.
(c) Ben.
(d) Tony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jackie thinks the young man in #77 looks like ____________________.

2. Who is Rachel's mother?

3. Why does Rachel scream at Tony when he comes home with Jackie?

4. Why would Rachel's mother approve of Fred?

5. What form of transportation does Rachel use to travel around and care for the sick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tony treat Jackie when Rachel takes her very ill mother to the hospital?

2. Who is the father of Rachel's baby and why does she refrain from making her love for Dillon public?

3. Why does Rachel stay in her unhappy marriage with Tony?

4. Who is Tony Angelelli?

5. After the war, why does Rachel fight her attraction to Dillon even though he is even more good-looking now?

6. Why is Rachel conflicted in her feelings even though she has found a rich boy who wants to marry her?

7. What makes Rachel ultimately surrender to her love for Dillon?

8. What is Appalachia and what does Rachel surprisingly udiscover about it?

9. How is Jackie like her mother in that she falls in love with a man she cannot have?

10. Who is Dillon Freeman and why does he idolize his dead father?

(see the answer keys)

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