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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been happening with Corrine since her husband's death?
(a) She has opened her own antique shop in town.
(b) She shares a home and is in the antique business with her friend Sable Mills.
(c) She is engaged to be married.
(d) She shares a home with a man named Gable Mills.

2. What happens after Patrick changes his thesis topic three times?
(a) He was notified he'd been assigned a new adviser.
(b) He was told he had to do exactly what his adviser wanted or drop the course.
(c) He was told he could not change his mind again.
(d) He was notified he was failing the course.

3. How does Judd explain what happens to their family?
(a) Things go wrong and no one knows how to fix it.
(b) He doesn't know, but says they should forget about it.
(c) They were all too stubborn.
(d) They were all too prideful.

4. How many hours does Marianne work at the Co-Op a week?
(a) Thirty or forty.
(b) Fifty or sixty.
(c) Forty or fifty.
(d) Sixty or seventy.

5. What does Judd reply when his mother tells him that his father loves him?
(a) He says he doesn't know what he knows.
(b) If his father loved him he wouldn't have beaten him.
(c) He doesn't believe anything she says.
(d) That it's a lie.

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

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

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

9. On the morning following her trip to the funeral, what does Abelove ask Marianne about Hewie?
(a) Why she asked him for a ride.
(b) What Hewie did to her.
(c) If she loves Hewie.
(d) What Hewie said about him while they were away.

10. What does Whit West do for Muffin?
(a) He puts Muffin to sleep.
(b) Muffin's kidney's are failing and he takes him for dialysis in Pittsburgh.
(c) There is nothing he can do.
(d) He gives Muffin updated shots.

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

12. What happens when Patrick tells Zachary he's the brother of the girl he raped?
(a) Zachary insists he never raped Marianne.
(b) Zachary apologizes.
(c) Zachary laughs.
(d) Zachary asks which girl.

13. How does Marianne meet Dr. Whittaker West?
(a) He is her college professor.
(b) They are set up on a blind date.
(c) He's a vet and she takes Muffin there.
(d) She is sick and needs a doctor.

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

15. Why does Marianne leave Penelope Hagstrom's?
(a) The woman offered her a higher paid position.
(b) All the answers are correct.
(c) The woman wanted her to help with her poetry.
(d) Penelope wanted Marianne to become associate director of her foundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marianne decide after Judd tells her that their father is asking for her and only her?

2. What words of Abelove's have a grimly prophetic tone?

3. When does Abelove discover that Marianne has left the Co-Op?

4. What does an elderly tenant have in the backyard of Judd's new home?

5. When Patrick pretends to be an old friend of Zach's when he calls, what does Zach's mother say?

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