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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best meal Jesse tells Debra Ann he ever had?
(a) Pizza and french fries.
(b) His grandmother's stew.
(c) Pot roast and potatoes, or the steak the army gave him when he got back from overseas.
(d) A milkshake and hamburger from his hometown diner.

2. What music reminds Debra Ann of driving with her mother?
(a) A Patti Smith album.
(b) A Bob Dylan album.
(c) An Elton John album.
(d) A Joni Mitchell album.

3. What library book is still in the back of Ginny's car when she leaves town?
(a) George Washington: A President.
(b) Art in America.
(c) An American Story.
(d) Peyton Place.

4. How does Mary Rose feel when her husband Robert leaves to go back to the ranch?
(a) Panicked.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Angry.
(d) Terrified.

5. Which street does Corrine live on?
(a) Larkspur Lane.
(b) Wysteria Row.
(c) Holland Street
(d) Meadow Drive.

6. Which bartender does Corrine routinely talk to at one of her favorite bars?
(a) Karla.
(b) Suzanne.
(c) Eve.
(d) Marsha.

7. Who is Debra Ann waiting anxiously for to come home?
(a) Ginny, her mother.
(b) Her brother Michael.
(c) John, her father.
(d) Her little sister Jennifer.

8. What has Gloria's uncle told her you call a soldier who panics?
(a) Missing.
(b) KIA.
(c) Deserter.
(d) Coward.

9. What did Potter instruct Corrine to make sure the doctor listed as his cause of death?
(a) Hunting accident.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Cancer.

10. What happens to the woman moving in across the street from Corrine in Part I?
(a) She goes into labor.
(b) Someone throws cans and bottles at her from the street.
(c) She breaks her leg on old rope in the yard.
(d) She shoots Corrine's cat.

11. How old is Gloria in Part I?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 18.
(d) 7.

12. What happens to Ginny's car on her trip after she leaves town?
(a) Her fan belt breaks.
(b) Her oil starts leaking.
(c) Her engine gives out.
(d) Her tires go flat.

13. What highway does Ginny drive when she leaves Odessa?
(a) I-80.
(b) I-270.
(c) I-20.
(d) I-495.

14. Where does Gloria wake up on Sunday morning in Part I?
(a) In her friend's house.
(b) In her own bed.
(c) Outside the bar.
(d) In the dirt beside Dale Strickland's truck in the oil patch.

15. What does Dale Strickland ask Mary Rose that unsettles Mary Rose immediately?
(a) If she has a knife in the house.
(b) Whether her husband is at home.
(c) Whether or not she has a phone.
(d) If she has been trained in police work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Rose go to Albuquerque in Part II?

2. What does Mary Rose know will drive Robert out of the house?

3. What does Corrine sometimes call Debra Ann?

4. What does Dale Strickland call Mary Rose?

5. Why is Mary Rose seen as a pariah by the women in the church?

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