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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 is significant about the dress Marianne wears to the Valentine's Dance?
(a) The dress is an altered dress that had once been Corrine's.
(b) Marianne and her mother shopped for it together.
(c) Marianne sewed the dress herself.
(d) Her mother suprised her with the dress.

2. What does Corrine find when she goes to pick up her husband after a late night call saying he couldn't drive home?
(a) Michael playing pool with his buddies.
(b) Michael sleeping peacefully.
(c) Michael with another woman.
(d) Michael drunk and with injuries he got from a bar room fight.

3. What is said about Judd as a baby?
(a) Judd was devoted to his older siblings.
(b) Marianne helped take care of him.
(c) Judd was a perfectly adorable baby.
(d) All the answers are correct.

4. What is written about Patrick Mulvaney's intelligence?
(a) He has a normal I.Q.
(b) He is a slow learner.
(c) He has an I.Q. of 151.
(d) He is a genious.

5. Why does Patrick suddenly try to change?
(a) He was going through a new phase in his life.
(b) A girl he liked said he was "icy-cold."
(c) He realized he had no friends.
(d) His friends told him he was anti-social.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Marianne's parents give her on her sixteenth birthday that she now fears is broken?

2. How does Corrine feel about telling Michael about their daughter's rape?

3. Where does Lydia Bethune say she has been seeing Marianne when she should have been in school?

4. Where does Marianne work while she attends Kilburn College?

5. When Patrick calls home in the chapter, "Reverse Prayer," what does he tell Judd he wants to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When entering a debate about the war in Vietnam, what is it that Corrine compares that war to, and why?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What does Judd reveal in the extremely short chapter, "Gone?"

7. Judd happens upon his father talking to his older brothers about some kind of secret. What is the discussion about and what is the significance of the discussion?

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

9. What is revealed about Judd as he watches the dogs rush into the pond as they chase the doe he had been watching?

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

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