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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Patrick use to explain what's happened to their father?
(a) Their father is a casualty of war.
(b) Their father has fallen off his pedestal.
(c) Their father is a child who no one wants to play with.
(d) A frog whose life is sucked out of it by a giant water spider.

2. In the chapter, "The Assault," why does Michael Mulvaney go to Mort Lundt's house?
(a) He is angry because he believes Zachary, Mort's son, is the person who raped Marianne.
(b) Michael stops by there regularly to play cards with Mort.
(c) He is out driving and just ends up there.
(d) Mort is his good friend, and he wants to discuss what happened to Marianne with him.

3. Where does Marianne work while she attends Kilburn College?
(a) In her college cafeteria.
(b) She is a full time student and does not work.
(c) She is interning for a local newspaper.
(d) The Green Isle Co-Op.

4. Who does Corrine depend on to tell her when there are problems or "situations" with her children?
(a) Judd.
(b) Michael Sr.
(c) Michael Jr.
(d) Patrick.

5. Who is Corrine almost engaged to before she meets Michael?
(a) Another young man staying at Schroon Lake for the summer.
(b) A friend from home named Jerry.
(c) A foreign exchange student.
(d) A fellow college student named Jerry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Judd find out what really happened to Marianne?

2. When does Michael realize he is in love with Corrine?

3. In the chapter titled "Phase," what does Michael Sr. begin doing late at night?

4. How does Corrine find out that Marianne has been raped?

5. What is written about Patrick Mulvaney's intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship does Michael Sr. have with his own father?

2. What is happening to Michael Sr. when he visits the bar in the Mt. Ephraim Country Club that causes him to throw the contents of his glass of beer into Judge Gerald Kirkland's face?

3. Why is Judd so insistent to find out what has happened to his sister that he put the family in such a turmoil?

4. After Corrine learns her daughter had been raped, what does she think about doing to cover for Marianne missing school?

5. What event occurs to Corrine in 1938 that she attributes to providence, and why does she say she is spared from death?

6. What does Lydia Bethune tell Corrine about Marianne and what bothers her the most about the revelation?

7. What questions are triggered about himself as Patrick thinks about the drawing, "The Huntsman?"

8. What upsets Corrine when she finds a matchbook in Michael's pants pocket from the Wolf's Head Inn?

9. Marianne repeats the same words over and over again that she can't remember what happened the night of the dance, and that she can't give testimony against Zach. However, in the chapter, "The Penitent," there is a hint at another thing that could motivate her not to testify. What is that?

10. Outside in the building where her mother stores her antiques, Marianne searched for a picture. What is the name of the picture and why is it so important to her?

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