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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Corrine and Potter eat for supper on their trip in Part III?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Hot dogs.
(c) Fish from the stream.
(d) Fried chicken and beer.

2. What tragedies befall the woman in Debra Ann's story to Jesse in Part IV?
(a) Her parents die in a fire.
(b) She has many miscarriages.
(c) Her brother dies in a drowning accident.
(d) Her husband and children die in a blizzard.

3. What did Ginny used to show Debra Ann on their trips home from West Odessa?
(a) Constellations.
(b) Deer.
(c) Sunsets.
(d) Rabbit hutches.

4. Who is Dale Strickland's lawyer?
(a) John Winter.
(b) Scooter Clemens.
(c) Mark Halston.
(d) Marlow Kelly.

5. Why does Victor Ramirez refuse to let Glory testify?
(a) He says she will be deported if she testifies.
(b) He says it will kill her.
(c) He says the people will not hear what she has to say.
(d) He says her mother would never allow it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the judge threaten to do to Mary Rose in Part IV?

2. Why is Mary Rose's baby so frantic when she gets to Corrine's house?

3. What dream does Glory sometimes have about the night of her rape?

4. Who watches Mary Rose's children while she testifies at Strickland's trial?

5. Why is Suzanne unlikely to ever be able to have another baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is taking care of Glory in her mother's absence and how does Glory seem to relate to this person?

2. In Part III, what happens to Alma, Glory's mother?

3. In Part IV, what does Aimee tell Debra Ann about her father and mother?

4. What medical struggle is Suzanne dealing with in Part III?

5. In Part III, what fantasies does Glory have about things going differently with Dale Strickland?

6. In Part III, what understanding do Corrine and Potter come to about how Corrine will be happy after having Alice?

7. At Strickland's trial, what does the defense lawyer say to Mary Rose that she knows is meant to intimidate her?

8. In Part IV, what does the judge insist Mary Rose say to him in order to appease him?

9. In Part III, why do you think it is so important to Suzanne that she and her daughter look like the ideal woman and girl in Odessa?

10. What does Corrine remember as one of the hardest times in her marriage to Potter?

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