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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of Laura's time is taken up when Julie comes to visit her?
(a) Caring for her baby.
(b) Working at the drugstore.
(c) Sleeping because she is having a difficult pregnancy.
(d) Helping her husband with his studies.

2. What does Julie do as she explores her aunt's house?
(a) Cries.
(b) Tries to figure out why she is there.
(c) Sings.
(d) Remembers times when she has been there.

3. How does Uncle Haskell excuse himself from the guests?
(a) By saying he is obligated to help the neighbor with his sick horse.
(b) By saying he needs something a little stronger than wine.
(c) By saying that he is a bit bored with the conversation.
(d) By saying he has to go work on his book.

4. While Julie is praying at the Cathedral of Four Silver Birches, who arrives?
(a) Chris.
(b) Laura.
(c) Aunt Cordelia.
(d) Uncle Haskell.

5. Who does Chris call?
(a) No one.
(b) Julie.
(c) Laura.
(d) Adam.

6. Who starts taking a special interest in Julie?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her dad.
(c) The neighbor's dog.
(d) Her uncle.

7. What does Aunt Cordelia do as Julie cleans the dishes?
(a) Rakes and burns leaves most of the night.
(b) Looks through old letters from Jonathan.
(c) Goes to sleep.
(d) Sits in her rocker and cries.

8. What do Chris and Julie discover in the woods one day?
(a) A sick puppy.
(b) A dead rabbit.
(c) Some Indian arrowheads.
(d) Their Uncle Haskell digging in the woods.

9. When did Julie last play with these children?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) Three years ago.

10. What does Uncle Haskell applaud?
(a) Mrs. Eltwing for her talents.
(b) Cordelia's excellent meal.
(c) Jonathan's last book.
(d) Julie's drawings.

11. What impact does this hostility have on the person in question #65?
(a) The person does not speak to Julie for the rest of the school year.
(b) The person goes and buries another bottle of whiskey.
(c) The person confronts Julie about it.
(d) The person just shrugs it off.

12. What is the aunt's response?
(a) She cannot have a party without inviting that person.
(b) She relents.
(c) She gives Julie a few days to change her mind.
(d) She compromises.

13. What do Chris and Julie do when Laura is getting married?
(a) They sneak away and don't go to the wedding.
(b) They participate in the wedding.
(c) Chris is unable to come home from school so Julie is too sad to go to the wedding.
(d) They get together and cry.

14. What does Julie do as she and Aunt Cordelia are talking?
(a) Hugs her aunt and tells her she is beautiful.
(b) Listens and lets her aunt tell her the story of Jonathan.
(c) Says she looks nothing like her aunt.
(d) Julie apologizes for her behavior earlier in the afternoon.

15. What enlivens Mrs. Eltwing?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Dessert.
(d) Julie's drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to say her aunt is a spinster?

2. Where is Julie Trelling walking as the story opens?

3. Of what does Bill assure Julie?

4. What seems ironic about Aggie in the coffin?

5. Why do the kids run off before they see what their uncle is doing?

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