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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 when she sees her father for the first time in twelve years?
(a) She sits silently beside him.
(b) She tells him she loves him and that she is sorry.
(c) She just stares at him because he looks so different.
(d) She cries so much she can't talk.

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

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

4. How does Judd reply when Patrick asks how their mother is taking the sale of the farm?
(a) Judd says she's okay, that she is the one handling most of it.
(b) He admits it is very hard on her.
(c) He says he can't tell if she's acting okay or if she really is okay.
(d) Judd says she cries a lot.

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

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

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

8. What does Hewie admit when he and Marianne get back to the Co-Op after going to her grandmother's funeral?
(a) That he was leaving the Co-Op.
(b) That he wanted Abelove's job.
(c) That he wouldn't tell anyone what she told him.
(d) That he loved Marianne.

9. What does Judd tell Patrick about their mother on Sunday mornings at church?
(a) It's like she breaks down every Sunday morning.
(b) It's like the pastor and his wife are her only friends.
(c) It's like she's not really there, she just stares into space.
(d) It's like she gets her strength from church.

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

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

12. What does Abelove say about Marianne's relationship with the Co-Op?
(a) He wanted to put her in charge of looking for benefactors.
(b) He wanted her to be manager of the gardens.
(c) He wanted her to take charge of the kitchen.
(d) He wanted her to be an Associate Director.

13. What does Judd keep hearing himself say?
(a) "Find Patrick. Find Patrick. Find Patrick."
(b) "Get out! Get out while you can."
(c) "Be strong for Mom. She needs you."
(d) "Take care of Mom. Be sure Mom doesn't crack up."

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been happening with Patrick since his father's death?

2. From where does Marianne watch her grandmother's funeral?

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

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

5. How does her roommate Felece-Marie react to Marianne's disappearance?

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