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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 expensive item does Jack buy on credit at a jewelry store in December of 1976?
(a) Anniversary ring.
(b) Watch.
(c) Pearl necklace.
(d) Diamond earrings.

2. How can Jack best be characterized at the end of the story?
(a) Remorseful.
(b) Ruthless.
(c) Philanthropic.
(d) Witty.

3. How does Jessie compare to the definition of a woman they thought Jack would marry?
(a) She reminds people of his mother.
(b) She is similar to Wanda Jo.
(c) She is the complete opposite.
(d) She is exactly the type they thought she would be.

4. What happens to Pat and Nora's daughter?
(a) She gets married.
(b) She wins a beauty pageant.
(c) She is killed in a car accident.
(d) She graduates Summa Cum Laude.

5. What do Pat and Jessie do on Sundays?
(a) Go to church.
(b) Go on outings with her boys.
(c) Go to a matinee.
(d) Go to baseball games.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Jessie get?

2. Who cared for Jessie's mother and siblings?

3. Which pet in the Burdette household is killed?

4. Where is Jessie working?

5. What is NOT Jack's demeanor when the head of the grain elevator's board visits him in jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Pat and Jessie become romantically involved?

2. What job does Jessie take even though she is in the late stages of pregnancy?

3. Why are the people in Holt so angry at Charlie Soames?

4. Who are Jessie and Jack's children?

5. Why do so many people in town turn up at the diner when Jack returns to town?

6. What does Jack do that shows why he came back to Holt, and what do his actions do to Pat?

7. Why are the people of Holt so angry at Charlie Soames?

8. What happens to finally make the townspeople leave Jessie alone?

9. After Jack has been gone for awhile, what shocking and public action does Jessie take?

10. What is revealed about Jack that infuriates the people in Holt?

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