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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Michael say about Corrine's appearance?
(a) She needed to have her hair cut and styled.
(b) She should wear some makeup.
(c) All the answers are correct.
(d) She should buy some new clothes.

3. Which of the Mulvaney children is said to be the most natural Christian?
(a) Mike.
(b) Judd.
(c) Marianne.
(d) Patrick.

4. What does Judd think bothers his brother, Mike, the most about their sister's rape?
(a) Judd thinks Mike is upset because no one talks about it.
(b) Judd thinks Mike is upset because he didn't protect her.
(c) Judd thinks Mike is upset because everyone is making such a big thing out of it.
(d) Judd thinks Mike is taking the rape as a slap in his face.

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

6. What does the woodcut make Patrick wonder about himself?
(a) Was he no different than any other human being?
(b) Was he coded, like other males, to hunt and kill?
(c) Why did the man in the picture look like him?
(d) Would he ever be able to take a hunting trip to Canada?

7. Why is Judd referred to as the caboose?
(a) No particular reason, it just sounded cute.
(b) Because the caboose was his favorite car on his train.
(c) Because he liked to play with trains.
(d) Judd is the last child born to Corrine and Michael Mulvaney.

8. How does the family refer to the word rape?
(a) As, "The night the world changed".
(b) They never spoke about it, ever.
(c) As, "it".
(d) As, "You know what."

9. What is the name of the person Marianne is living with?
(a) Katrina Mulvaney.
(b) Ethel Mulaney.
(c) Grandma Hausmann.
(d) Ethel Hausmann.

10. What does Marianne do when someone draws a nasty picture on the seat of her chair at school?
(a) She runs out of the room in embarrasment.
(b) She gets angry and scribbles over it.
(c) She starts to cry.
(d) Nothing, she doesn't see it.

11. What does Judd notice about his father and the people around them at Patrick's graduation?
(a) That the man who was once the center of attention was now treated like an invisible man.
(b) That his father looks so out of place among his friends.
(c) That the people treated his father with respect.
(d) That his father doesn't want to talk to anyone.

12. What is the name of Marianne's horse?
(a) Molly-O.
(b) Silky.
(c) Muffin.
(d) Ranger.

13. What does Judd say of his parents' relationship before things changed?
(a) Michael and Corrine fought a lot.
(b) Michael and Corrine were indifferent to each other.
(c) Michael and Corrine liked to play jokes on each other.
(d) Michael and Corrine were romantic.

14. What words does Michael say at Schroon Lake that Corrine remembers twenty-four years later as she sits in Dr. Oakley's office?
(a) "Stay with me forever."
(b) "Love me! I'm more than enough."
(c) "Let's elope."
(d) "Marry me. I'll love you forever."

15. Who starts calling Mike Jr. "Mule"?
(a) A farmer.
(b) His soccer coach.
(c) His football coach.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Reverse Prayer", what does Patrick say to Judd when he calls?

2. How old is Corrine in the story she tells about December 1938?

3. What does Judd say about setting down the truth of this story?

4. What is significant about the dress Marianne wears to the Valentine's Dance?

5. Where does Marianne work while she attends Kilburn College?

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