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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Judd find out what really happened to Marianne?
(a) His mother tells him.
(b) He finally corners Mike and Mike tells him.
(c) Judd asks Marianne and she tells him.
(d) He finally asks his father and he tells him.

2. In the chapter, "The Assault," why does Michael Mulvaney go to Mort Lundt's house?
(a) Michael stops by there regularly to play cards with Mort.
(b) He is out driving and just ends up there.
(c) He is angry because he believes Zachary, Mort's son, is the person who raped Marianne.
(d) Mort is his good friend, and he wants to discuss what happened to Marianne with him.

3. Who is Muffin?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A goat.

4. What metaphor does Patrick use to explain what's happened to their father?
(a) A frog whose life is sucked out of it by a giant water spider.
(b) Their father is a child who no one wants to play with.
(c) Their father has fallen off his pedestal.
(d) Their father is a casualty of war.

5. After looking all over the bus terminal for Marianne, where does Patrick find her?
(a) Sleeping on a bench.
(b) Coming ouf of the restroom.
(c) Outside the terminal.
(d) She showed up at his apartment.

6. In the chapter, "Snow after Easter," when does it state is the last time Patrick has seen Marianne?
(a) When she was taken from their home.
(b) When they all visited the family home at Christmas.
(c) The past weekend when he visited her.
(d) At her high school graduation the previous June.

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

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

9. What happens when Judd asks his mother if Marianne is sick?
(a) Corrine seemed in a hurry to get away before being asked more questions.
(b) Corrine says Marianne will be back at school soon.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Corrine says Marianne just had the flu.

10. What is the question that might have been raised about Marianne's phone call for a ride home the day after the Valentine's Dance?
(a) Marianne was supposed to be picked up later.
(b) Marianne was supposed to be driven home by someone else.
(c) Marianne was supposed to be home the night before.
(d) There was no question to be raised.

11. How many members of the Mulvaney family are there at the beginning of the story?
(a) Thirty-five, counting pets.
(b) Six, not counting pets.
(c) Sixteen, plus farm animals.
(d) Five.

12. Where does most of the story take place?
(a) Chautauqua Valley Farm, Chautauqua, New York.
(b) High Point Farm, Mt. Ephraim, New York.
(c) Five Point Road, Mt. Ephraim, New York.
(d) High Point Farm, Chautauqua, New York.

13. Why doesn't Patrick recognize Marianne when he finally sees her?
(a) She was taller than he remembered.
(b) She looked like a boy.
(c) She had dyed her hair.
(d) She had gained weight.

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

15. Why is Marianne disturbed about "Feathers", their bird?
(a) She wants Feathers for her own.
(b) She doesn't like the bird being loose.
(c) She doesn't think it should be in a cage.
(d) She thinks birds spread germs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Corrine say the country club discriminates against her family?

2. What is written about Marianne as a baby?

3. To Judd, what does Patrick's request seem to be?

4. What is written about Patrick as a baby?

5. What does one realize about Judd in the opening of the chapter, "Every Heartbeat?"

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