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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marianne do for work after leaving the Co-Op?
(a) She is a maid for a wealthy family.
(b) She started painting.
(c) Marianne works as an assistant to Penelope Hagstrom, a poet and philanthropist.
(d) She is in college.

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

3. When Patrick pretends to be an old friend of Zach's when he calls, what does Zach's mother say?
(a) All the answers were correct.
(b) That she and her husband appreciated Zach's friend's loyalty.
(c) The girl was sent away and she didn't know what happened to the father.
(d) She couldn't remember the name of the girl who'd made accusations about her son after a party.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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) He doesn't believe anything she says.
(c) If his father loved him he wouldn't have beaten him.
(d) That it's a lie.

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

10. Where does Patrick decide he is going to take Zachary Lundt to get revenge?
(a) To the lake.
(b) Back to where Zach raped Marianne.
(c) To the sewage treatment plant.
(d) None of the answers are correct.

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

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

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

14. Why does Marianne always volunteer to chop onions at the Co-Op?
(a) Because she loves to cook.
(b) To hide her tears.
(c) Because no one else wants to chop them.
(d) Chopping helps get rid of her frustrations.

15. Why does Aunt Ethel call Marianne?
(a) To tell her that Patrick was arrested for attempted murder.
(b) To find out how Marianne is doing.
(c) To tell her that her grandmother Hausmann died.
(d) To tell Marianne that her mother wants to see her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judd tell Patrick about their mother on Sunday mornings at church?

2. How does Judd refer to the area of town where he lives after leaving his parent's home?

3. What does Abelove say that makes Marianne cry more?

4. What does Zachary do when Patrick stops his car and points a rifle at him?

5. In the chapter titled, "Gone," what are the final words of the chapter about their father?

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