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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Judd say about prayer?
(a) He will continue to pray.
(b) Prayer doesn't work.
(c) His mother can pray.
(d) His family is past prayer.

2. Why doesn't Judd recognize Patrick when they meet the night before Easter?
(a) Patrick has dyed hair.
(b) Patrick is tougher looking and has a beard.
(c) Patrick is wearing a mask.
(d) Patrick is wearing a disguise.

3. Why can't Michael Sr. get and keep a job?
(a) He has a bad attitude and temper.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) He looks terrible.
(d) He drinks too much.

4. What does Patrick start doing the winter before he executes his plan?
(a) Spending more time in the lab.
(b) Working out at the gym.
(c) Putting his thoughts in a journal.
(d) Running.

5. Where does Marianne go after leaving the Co-Op?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Spartansburg, Pennsylvania.
(c) Erie, Pennsylvania.
(d) Ithaca, New York.

6. What duty of Birk's does Marianne take over that makes a huge difference at the Co-Op?
(a) Baking bread.
(b) Working in the garden.
(c) Keeping the duty roster up to date.
(d) Fundraising.

7. What does Michael Sr. want to have done with his ashes?
(a) To sprinkle them at his beloved Mt. Ephraim Country Club.
(b) Have his ashes scattered.
(c) To divide them up between them.
(d) To scatter them on their old farm.

8. What has been happening to Marianne since her father's death?
(a) She has moved on a few more times.
(b) She is living with Corrine.
(c) She and Witt are happily married with two children.
(d) After moving to Pittsburgh she is finally settling down.

9. What does Patrick do when Zachary begins sinking in the bog?
(a) He laughs and tells him he's getting what he deserves.
(b) He watches as Zachary goes under and drowns.
(c) He suddenly changes his mind and pulls him out.
(d) He turns around and walks away.

10. Why does Michael Sr. ask Mike about a white horse?
(a) Michael is trying to change the subject from his drinking.
(b) White Horse is a cheap whiskey he wants his son to buy him.
(c) He's delirious.
(d) Michael has been dreaming and in the dream is a white horse.

11. What doesn't Marianne take with her?
(a) Her quilt.
(b) Hardcover textbooks.
(c) Muffin.
(d) Paperback books.

12. What Charlotte Bronte words become a motto to Marianne?
(a) "Hard work never killed anyone."
(b) "Out of obscurity I came -- to obsurity I can easily return."
(c) "A rose by any other name would smell so sweet."
(d) "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

13. What do the brothers do for the first time before they part in the chapter titled, "The Handshake."
(a) They pray together.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) They hug.
(d) They promise to stay in touch.

14. What do some of the people at the Co-Op suspect Abelove knows?
(a) Their darkest secrets.
(b) He knows how to be invisible so he can hear everything they say.
(c) Government secrets.
(d) Everything about them.

15. When does Abelove discover that Marianne has left the Co-Op?
(a) Late in the day.
(b) At dinner.
(c) Early evening.
(d) Late afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Abelove finds Marianne crying in the greenhouse?

2. What does Patrick mean by "Chance follows design"?

3. How does Patrick feel as he drives away from the bog?

4. What kind of day is it when they dispose of Michael's ashes?

5. On the morning after the funeral, what personal question does Abelove ask Marianne?

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