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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zorrie's conversation with Noah about church make her wonder about herself?
(a) How her own attitudes towards church were changing.
(b) If she had read enough of the Bible to really understand it.
(c) If Reverend Carter liked her or not.
(d) Whether she would ever become a nun.

2. What does Noah put around his father's body after he dies?
(a) Sage.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Thyme.
(d) A ring of lime powder.

3. What does Hank ask Zorrie to do in Part IV?
(a) Marry Noah.
(b) Move in with Noah.
(c) Take Opal into her own home.
(d) Keep an eye on Noah.

4. What did Harold once say when Zorrie spilled something on their table in their early years of marriage?
(a) She was always graceful to him.
(b) She had been clumsy.
(c) She had made the table cry.
(d) It was bad luck to spill milk.

5. What does Opal tell Zorrie they used to let her do at the hospital?
(a) Paint.
(b) Sing.
(c) Bake.
(d) Milk cows in the dairy.

6. What is one of Virgil's favorite books?
(a) Montaigne.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) The Hobbit.

7. What does Opal tell Zorrie she thinks she might be too in Part IV?
(a) A ghost girl.
(b) A lost cause.
(c) A friend.
(d) An ill person.

8. Who does Oats take to spending all day with?
(a) Emily.
(b) Henry.
(c) James.
(d) Virgil.

9. What does Noah say when Zorrie asks him if he would consider going to church?
(a) Church does not really want him.
(b) He can not stand Reverend Carter.
(c) It is not a place for him.
(d) He hates church.

10. What does Virgil's death make Zorrie think of as she walks home from the Summers house?
(a) Her baby.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Harold's death.
(d) Her parents.

11. Why does Noah tell Zorrie Virgil kept going to church, even though he did not think much of it in his later years?
(a) To please Ruby.
(b) To please Noah.
(c) To please Opal.
(d) To please Zorrie.

12. Who is Lester's wife?
(a) Maria.
(b) Emma.
(c) Joan.
(d) Jane.

13. What does Zorrie ask Noah not to do when he talks to her in Part IV?
(a) Talk badly about Opal.
(b) Tell her he loves her again.
(c) Curse so much.
(d) Look at her in anger.

14. What does Zorrie tell Opal that Harold used to say she was as smart as?
(a) A school principal.
(b) A priest.
(c) A dolphin.
(d) A fox.

15. What does Hank tell everyone about the fire?
(a) Hank himself started it accidentally.
(b) It is a crime.
(c) It was an accident.
(d) It was intentional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Opal cryptically tell Zorrie is "behind her face" in Part IV?

2. What does Marie tell Zorrie about the Radium in Part III?

3. What does Noah do after Virgil dies?

4. Why does Zorrie have to slaughter her pigs?

5. How does Candy Wilson refer to Zorrie's generosity with her produce from the farm?

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