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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonathan do on many evenings?
(a) Has a few drinks with Haskell.
(b) Goes to talk to the priest about his wife.
(c) Works late to avoid his wife.
(d) Seeks out the comfort of Aunt Cordelia's big house as a retreat from the stress of his own life.

2. What does Julie hear people whispering?
(a) That Aunt Cordelia is seeing Jonathan.
(b) That Uncle Haskell is in trouble with the law.
(c) That Julie is too much for Aunt Cordelia to handle.
(d) That Julie's father is moving to the farm.

3. What does Haskell play for Katy?
(a) Some halting songs on the piano which Katy can no longer play.
(b) Some classical recordings.
(c) An old guitar.
(d) A phonograph.

4. What does Katy tell Jonathan?
(a) That she wants to play music again.
(b) That she is never going to like the country.
(c) That she wants to stay at Cordelia's house.
(d) That the "golden-haired man" found her, and she was no longer afraid.

5. Why is the driver irritated with Julie?
(a) He has heard some mean rumors about her and Brett.
(b) She won't speak to him.
(c) She didn't tell him she was staying after school.
(d) He was afraid for her to walk home alone.

6. What does Brett do when he and Julie are done talking?
(a) Leaves immediately.
(b) Tries to coerce her into walking in the woods with him.
(c) Tells her he understands.
(d) Slaps her in anger.

7. What happens in the Spring?
(a) Aunt Cordelia dies.
(b) Julie's father marries Alicia.
(c) Uncle Haskell is confined to his bed.
(d) Laura announces she is pregnant again.

8. What is the cause of Uncle Haskell's problem?
(a) She married someone else.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Smoking.
(d) He thinks from chemicals used in the war.

9. What advice does Danny offer Julie?
(a) To learn how to cook for the evenuality of being a wife.
(b) To start applying to colleges now.
(c) To go live with Laura and Bill for her senior year.
(d) To stay away from Brett.

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

11. Why do Julie's friends think she is crazy for wanting to stay at Aunt Cordelia's house during high school?
(a) Because Aunt Cordelia will be much stricter than Julie's father.
(b) Because she won't have a lot of the modern conveniences.
(c) Because no young man will want to drive out there to date Julie.
(d) Because Uncle Haskell will scare off any potential suitors.

12. Who does Brett begin to date?
(a) Carlotta.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Misty.
(d) No one; he continues to try to get Julie to get back with him.

13. What has an especially bad end?
(a) Julie's relationship to Carlotta.
(b) Brett who dies in a car crash when angry and drunk.
(c) Uncle Haskell who freezes to death in the woods while drunk.
(d) Julie's junior year.

14. What convinces Julie to stay at Aunt Cordelia's?
(a) She walks in on Alicia and her father in an amorous embrace.
(b) She doesn't like to be a built-in babysitter.
(c) She and Alicia have a fight about the office.
(d) She and her dad seem like strangers.

15. Where does Julie anticipate moving?
(a) To boarding school.
(b) To her former room at her dad's house.
(c) Into Laura's old room at her dad's house.
(d) To the downstairs bedroom in Cordelia's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Haskell doing for Cordelia?

2. About what is Julie wondering?

3. Why does Alicia want to speak to Julie after class?

4. What reason does Cordelia give for declining a teaching position in the school where the children will be going?

5. How can those around her tell Julie is feeling better?

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