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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state's presidential primary election is the focus of the news broadcasts in Chapter 13?
(a) North Dakota's.
(b) New Hampshire's.
(c) Texas's.
(d) Utah's.

2. In the conclusion of Chapter 14, Thatcher says to Carruth's family, "Men like your father may have" what (384)?
(a) "God's saving grace."
(b) "Fortunes hidden in rafters."
(c) "Unexpected reserves."
(d) "An ideal."

3. What is the name of the architect specialist who comes to assess Willa's home in Chapter 15?
(a) Mr. Priestley.
(b) Mr. Petrofaccio.
(c) Mr. Kimble.
(d) Mr. Peakesbury.

4. Whose reaction to Darwin's theories does Cutler present from the Quarterly Review in the debate in Chapter 12?
(a) Joseph Priestly's.
(b) Samuel Wilbeforce's.
(c) Henry David Thoreau's.
(d) Peter Petrofaccio's.

5. In Chapter 18, the narrator opens, "Of all seasons in the Pine Barrens, summer was" what (455)?
(a) "The muckiest."
(b) "Consummate."
(c) "Breathtaking."
(d) "The most dreadful."

6. What organization sent Mr. Hawk correspondence from Mary Treat to Charles Valentine Riley?
(a) The International Trade Library.
(b) The Natural History Library.
(c) The Natural Sciences Library.
(d) The National Agricultural Library.

7. Where is Johann Miescher from?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Norway.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

8. Willa compares listening to the news radio stations to listening to whom reporting on the alien invasion in Chapter 13?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) James Day.
(c) Roger Wilson.
(d) William Watson.

9. Whose family is described in Chapter 11 as "a big, loyal household of parentless siblings holding it all together" (290)?
(a) Jorge's.
(b) Iano's.
(c) Emma's.
(d) Peter's.

10. In what month does Chapter 15 begin?
(a) April.
(b) June.
(c) March.
(d) January.

11. In the conclusion of Chapter 16, the author references the title of the novel in stating, "Without shelter, we stand in" what (426)?
(a) "Truth."
(b) "Purity."
(c) "Danger."
(d) "Daylight."

12. What does Zeke tell Willa he has decided to do concerning Dusty in Chapter 11?
(a) Take custody of Dusty himself.
(b) Grant custody to Willa and Iano.
(c) Place Dusty in a new foster home.
(d) Grant custody to Tig.

13. Who is Aurelia announced to be marrying in Chapter 16?
(a) Mr. Wilbeforce.
(b) Mr. Nailburne.
(c) Mr. Dunwiddie.
(d) Mr. Carruth.

14. Into whose manor is Mary moving in Chapter 18?
(a) The Andersons' manor.
(b) The Christensons' manor.
(c) The Campbells' manor.
(d) The Smiths' manor.

15. From where did Uri Carruth's father immigrate to the U.S.?
(a) Russia.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Willa describe the landscape of New Jersey in comparison to the other places she has lived?

2. What is the title of the final chapter of the novel?

3. What is the third principle that Thatcher presents in his debate with Cutler in Chapter 12?

4. To whom does Willa give the Navajo rug in Chapter 17?

5. How is Captain Landis's wife widely described as being, according to the narrator in Chapter 12?

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