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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 Stump Creek Hill?
(a) A federal and state licensed zoo.
(b) All the answers are correct.
(c) A veterinary clinic.
(d) A home for sick, injured, abandoned, and elderly animals.

2. Why does Marianne leave Penelope Hagstrom's?
(a) All the answers are correct.
(b) Penelope wanted Marianne to become associate director of her foundation.
(c) The woman offered her a higher paid position.
(d) The woman wanted her to help with her poetry.

3. In the chapter titled, "Gone," what does Judd admit doing with his father's ashes?
(a) He accidentally spilled the ashes.
(b) He dropped a penny in the box of ashes for good luck.
(c) He peeked at his father's ashes.
(d) He didn't admit doing anything to the ashes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Michael Sr. get and keep a job?

2. What happens to Marianne when she cries while shoveling snow?

3. What Charlotte Bronte words become a motto to Marianne?

4. What does Patrick suddenly remember as he drives with Zachary?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it so important to Marianne that her father really does ask to see her?

2. While he waits for Zach Lundt to come out of the Cobb's Corner bar, who besides Zach Lundt does Patrick also think about shooting?

3. Why is Abelove upset that Marianne accepts a ride from Hewie Miner to take her to her grandmother's funeral?

4. What happens after Michael Sr. files for bankruptcy?

5. What happens to Michael Sr. that finally initiates the phone call Marianne has been waiting for from her mother?

6. What does Dr. Whittaker West do for Marianne that makes her very grateful?

7. What is it that Marianne fears about people making too much of her, worrying about her, or touching her?

8. At what kind of place in her life is Corrine as she plans for the Fourth of July celebration in 1993?

9. What seems to be happening to Corrine in the chapter, "Hard Reckoning?"

10. Why, after Marianne admits she is in love with Abelove, doesn't she want to accept his proposal?

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