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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 two people or things is Ralph torn between?
(a) Being a sheep farmer or working in Wahine.
(b) The Clearys and the Carsons.
(c) Meggie and the Church.
(d) Paddy and Fiona

2. Why is Fiona punished by her family?
(a) Because she is in love with a married man.
(b) Because she runs away.
(c) Because she refuses to follow in her mother's footsteps.
(d) Because she is unmarried and pregnant.

3. Who finds Paddy's remains?
(a) Meggie.
(b) Fiona.
(c) Father Ralph.
(d) Stuart.

4. Where does Ralph find Meggie at the end of Mary's birthday party?
(a) Sitting on Mary's front porch.
(b) Sitting alone in her room at Drogheda.
(c) Weeping in the garden.
(d) Crying over Hal's grave.

5. What is the name of the newest Cleary?
(a) Hayden.
(b) Howard.
(c) Hank.
(d) Harold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the oldest son runs away?

2. Why is Stuart able to leave school?

3. What does Father Ralph tell Meggie when he returns for the funerals?

4. Why does Paddy get into an argument with Frank when they are in Gillanbone for the Show and Picnic Races?

5. What does Mary Carson have difficulty keeping?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Meggie and Stuart stop attending school?

2. What does Fiona find while packing and how does it affect her?

3. What happens to Frank at the district's social event?

4. What happens to Meggie's friendship with Teresa Annunzio?

5. What is life like for Fiona at Drogheda?

6. Why does Mary Carson find it more advantageous to remain a widow and not remarry?

7. What happens between Frank and Paddy when they are at the Gillanbone Show and Picnic Races?

8. What kind of employer is Mary Carson?

9. How has Father Ralph's life changed since Mary Carson died?

10. What physically happens to Meggie that initially frightens her?

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