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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Corrine feel about the Mt. Ephraim Country Club?
(a) It is too rich for their blood.
(b) She wants to join.
(c) She loves going there.
(d) It makes her uneasy, resentful, and angry.

2. What is the name of Corrine Mulvaney's shop?
(a) High Point Antiques.
(b) Mt. Ephraim Antiques.
(c) Chautauqua Valley Farm Antiques.
(d) High Point This and That.

3. How old is Judd when Patrick makes his request?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Fifteen.

4. What does Judd realize as he listens to his heartbeat?
(a) That the heart needs the brain for people to survive.
(b) That one day he and everyone he loves will die.
(c) That the heart keeps the body alive.
(d) That the brain needs the heart to survive.

5. Why does Marianne like to do ironing?
(a) It gives her something to do.
(b) She doesn't like ironing at all.
(c) It is a time she can meditate and pray.
(d) She takes pride in unwrinkled clothes.

6. What does Corrine say leads her mother and her to safety in the snow storm?
(a) Flies.
(b) Twinkle lights.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) A light from Heaven.

7. To Judd, what does Patrick's request seem to be?
(a) Something that brothers do for one another.
(b) Something that only special friends do.
(c) Something he didn't want to do.
(d) A horrible thing.

8. What does Patrick need Judd to do to help him follow through with his plan?
(a) Create an alibi for him.
(b) Get some guns from their gun cabinet.
(c) Get some fertilizer from the barn.
(d) Get a pistol from the nightstand beside their father's bed.

9. What happens when Judd asks Patrick what happened to Marianne?
(a) Patrick is visibly upset and storms away in anger.
(b) Patrick admits she's had some trouble, but that she is okay now.
(c) Patrick gets angry and tells Judd to mind his own business.
(d) Patrick refuses to discuss it.

10. How does Patrick look upon Zachary Lundt?
(a) As a spoiled brat.
(b) As a stupid kid who made a mistake.
(c) As a lab specimen.
(d) As their enemy.

11. What happens when Michael sees Zachary Lundt?
(a) Michael asks Zachary if he raped Marianne.
(b) Michael pulls a knife and tries to stab Zachary.
(c) When Michael sees Zachary he is overcome with rage and attacks Zachary.
(d) Michael smiles and asks Zachary to talk to him.

12. Why does Patrick suddenly try to change?
(a) His friends told him he was anti-social.
(b) He realized he had no friends.
(c) He was going through a new phase in his life.
(d) A girl he liked said he was "icy-cold."

13. How does Corrine say the country club discriminates against her family?
(a) They don't let them eat in the main dining room.
(b) They can't get in without dress clothing.
(c) They don't permit children in the dining room.
(d) She and Marianne cannot enter through the front door.

14. What does one realize about Judd in the opening of the chapter, "Every Heartbeat?"
(a) He is a lonely boy.
(b) He is lazy.
(c) He is sneaky.
(d) He is a dreamer.

15. What does Patrick tell Judd when he asks why their father hates Marianne?
(a) Patrick says that their father doesn't hate her.
(b) Patrick says that their father is a drunk.
(c) Patrick says that nothing their father does makes sense.
(d) Patrick says their father feels guilty he didn't protect Marianne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judd say about the newspaper where he is editor?

2. Where does Michael Mulvaney Sr. go in the chapter titled "Dignity?"

3. In the chapter, "The Assault," why does Michael Mulvaney go to Mort Lundt's house?

4. What does Judd say of his parents' relationship before things changed?

5. What is the name of Marianne's horse?

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