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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 words does Michael say at Schroon Lake that Corrine remembers twenty-four years later as she sits in Dr. Oakley's office?
(a) "Let's elope."
(b) "Stay with me forever."
(c) "Love me! I'm more than enough."
(d) "Marry me. I'll love you forever."

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

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

4. What is the name of the person Marianne is living with?
(a) Grandma Hausmann.
(b) Ethel Mulaney.
(c) Ethel Hausmann.
(d) Katrina Mulvaney.

5. What is "The Huntsman?"
(a) A picture Marianne painted for Patrick.
(b) A picture Patrick bid on and won at an auction.
(c) A woodcut picture Corrine purchased at auction that Patrick particularly liked.
(d) A picture Patrick painted in high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is written about Mike Jr. as a baby?

2. To Judd, what does Patrick's request seem to be?

3. After looking all over the bus terminal for Marianne, where does Patrick find her?

4. What does Mrs. Lundt do from another part of the house?

5. What does Marianne thank God for after the rape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about the experience of Michael Sr. and Corrine becoming parents to their four children?

2. What does the title of the story imply in comparison to the title of the first chapter, "Storybook House?"

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

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

5. As one reads about the Valentine's Dance and Marianne Mulvaney being the only junior elected to the King and Queen's court, what do we learn about her?

6. What happens at the rock concert that Patrick attends that Judd believes sets off a long series of criminal events in which he assisted Patrick?

7. In the chapter, "Every Heartbeat," what is it that Judd suddenly realizes?

8. In the chapter, "Imminent Mortality", how does Michael Sr. react to the news that his daughter has been raped?

9. What is the toll on Judd as his siblings leave home?

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

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