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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Marianne watch her grandmother's funeral?
(a) The last pew closest to the door so she could leave before anyone knew she was there.
(b) Outside the window of the church.
(c) The choir loft where no one else was seated.
(d) Crouched behind a headstone in the cemetery.

2. What does Zachary do when Patrick stops his car and points a rifle at him?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) He cries.
(c) He begs not to be shot.
(d) He wets himself.

3. The last time Marianne speaks to her mother, what does Corrine call Marianne's life?
(a) A rag-quilt life.
(b) A waste.
(c) Strange.
(d) Admirable.

4. Who is the professor who serves as Patrick's adviser in college?
(a) Doctor Herring.
(b) Professor Herring.
(c) Doctor Henning.
(d) Professor Henning.

5. How does Judd refer to the area of town where he lives after leaving his parent's home?
(a) No-man's-land, south side of Marsena.
(b) The slums.
(c) Farm country.
(d) Busy urban center.

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

7. Where does Michael Mulvaney move after he leaves Corrine?
(a) Erie.
(b) Ithaca.
(c) Yewville.
(d) Pittsburgh.

8. What does Aunt Ethel tell her about her mother?
(a) Her mother wants her to attend her grandmother's funeral.
(b) That her mother is going to the funeral alone.
(c) Her mother wanted Aunt Ethel to call and tell her about her grandmother.
(d) Her mother doesn't want her to attend her grandmother's funeral.

9. What does Marianne do after Whit tends to Muffin?
(a) She looks for a job near Stump Creek Hill to pay for Muffin's treatments.
(b) She stays to work at Stump Creek Hill shelter.
(c) She runs away again.
(d) She goes back to college.

10. What does Corrine say after they scatter her husband's ashes?
(a) She can hear dad laughing.
(b) This is funny.
(c) All the answers are correct.
(d) He'd think it was funny.

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

12. What does Patrick mean by "Chance follows design"?
(a) No matter how you design something chance enters into it.
(b) First you design something then it's up to chance.
(c) Nothing is left to chance if it is carefully designed.
(d) You carefully plan something that looks like luck to an observer.

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

14. What member of the family is missing at Michael Mulvaney Sr.'s funeral?
(a) Judd.
(b) Patrick.
(c) Mike Jr.
(d) Corrine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Patrick do when Zachary begins sinking in the bog?

2. How does Marianne respond to Abelove's personal question?

3. What does Judd reply when his mother tells him that his father loves him?

4. Why doesn't Judd recognize Patrick when they meet the night before Easter?

5. Why does Patrick call the Lundts in March?

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