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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 happens to the land a week after the fire?
(a) The boys chop the remaining trees down.
(b) The burnt area withers even more in the heat.
(c) New growth begins to appear.
(d) Rains soak the area.

2. What decision does Meggie make during her getaway?
(a) To tell Fiona about her marriage.
(b) To bury the past and forget Father Ralph.
(c) To leave Luke.
(d) To leave the Muellers.

3. Who assumes Paddy's role as head stockman?
(a) Bob.
(b) Jack.
(c) Meggie.
(d) Jims.

4. How does Meggie feel about Dane's career choice?
(a) She is fully supportive.
(b) She wishes Dane would have made a better career choice.
(c) She wishes that he lived closer.
(d) She feels the Church took Ralph and is now taking her son.

5. Who does Meggie confide the state of her marriage to?
(a) Father Ralph.
(b) The Muellers.
(c) No one.
(d) Fiona.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the relationship between Dane and Justine?

2. What is Justine torn between?

3. What does Luke convince Meggie to do?

4. What does Cardinal Contini-Verchese find out?

5. What does Luke believe he should do when they get married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Cleary brothers like?

2. If the war intensifies, what members of the Cleary family are selected to enlist and why?

3. In the life of the Cleary family, what two major events take place on September 2, 1945?

4. What happens to the twins in New Guinea?

5. What are three major decisions that Luke makes, without consulting Meggie, in the first part of their marriage?

6. Who comes to visit Meggie while she is on vacation at Matlock?

7. What happens to Dane after his ordination?

8. Who is Luke O'Neill?

9. What does Meggie think of Luke when she is getting to know him?

10. What does Father Ralph do when he is back in Rome?

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