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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom are rumors being said?
(a) Brett and Aimlee.
(b) Brett and Carlotta.
(c) Carolota and Brandon.
(d) Carlota and Jimmy.

2. Why does Uncle Haskell need a diversion?
(a) He is dying from a brain tumor.
(b) He is dying from lung cancer.
(c) He is dying from cirrhosis of the liver.
(d) He has been rejected by a woman he hoped to marry.

3. How is Katy's declining health exacerbated?
(a) By her refusal to get out of bed.
(b) By the medicine that supposedly is helping her.
(c) By her hysterical outbursts.
(d) By her refusal to eat.

4. To whom does Julie turn for advice on her new hobby?
(a) Danny.
(b) Her father.
(c) Aunt Cordelia.
(d) Uncle Haskell.

5. Why does Aunt Cordelia summon Uncle Haskell to have Brett leave?
(a) She thinks Brett needs a man-to-man talk.
(b) She thinks it's too late to walk in the woods.
(c) She is not sure if Brett knows the woods well enough in the dark.
(d) She fears Brett's temper.

6. What were Julie and Brett's little walks normally?
(a) Time to enjoy the natural environment.
(b) Private talk time.
(c) Time to kiss and hold hands.
(d) Time for discussing school assignments.

7. What does Julie begin to do in her senior year?
(a) Sculpt.
(b) Play the violin.
(c) Write.
(d) Paint.

8. What does Jonathan often have to do?
(a) Find someone to sit with Katy.
(b) Lightly slap Katy when she is in hysterics.
(c) Leave work to return home to console his hysterical wife.
(d) Give Katy calming medicine.

9. Of what does Julie's social life consist her first two years of high school?
(a) Of attending college programs with her father.
(b) School plays.
(c) The high school band.
(d) Nothing.

10. Where is one of Julie's stories published?
(a) In Life.
(b) In the New Yorker.
(c) In a university magazine.
(d) In Reader's Digest.

11. Why does Haskell eventually refuse to come to Jonathan's home?
(a) He thinks Katy is doing this for his attention.
(b) He believes Katy will let go and die if he isn't there to give her hope.
(c) He thinks Jonathan is abusing Katy.
(d) He can no longer watch Katy in this condition.

12. Why is the little school where Cordelia teaches being closed?
(a) Because Cordelia wants to retire.
(b) So that the country children can have the benefit of an education in a city school.
(c) There is not enough space for all the children.
(d) The building is not up to code.

13. Why are all the girls envious?
(a) When Brett selects Julie for his girlfriend.
(b) That Julie is so beautiful.
(c) That Chris is her brother.
(d) That her dad introduces Julie to college boys.

14. About what is Julie annoyed with recent meetings with her father?
(a) That he seems distracted and does not pay attention to her.
(b) That he has not mentioned her coming home.
(c) That Alicia Allison is accompanying him.
(d) That he has canceled several scheduled visits at the last moment.

15. Why does Uncle Haskell call Julie down from upstairs one evening?
(a) To help him bury some more bottles.
(b) To finish the dishes she had left in the sink.
(c) To help him with Katy who he finds wandering in the woods.
(d) To sing a song he's been trying to remember.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Haskell play for Katy?

2. Where does Uncle Haskell prefer to be instead in with the noisy family?

3. What discovery appalls Julie?

4. How does Julie's luck change with the guys?

5. What coincides with Julie's last year of elementary school?

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