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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zorrie start doing regularly in Part IV?
(a) Taking dinner to Noah's and eating with him.
(b) Singing.
(c) Adopting dogs.
(d) Visiting Opal.

2. What is Zorrie struck by when she meets Opal?
(a) Opal's beautiful clothes.
(b) Opal's missing teeth.
(c) Opal's startling blue eyes.
(d) Opal's gray hair.

3. What does Zorrie do at the Summers's that helps Virgil?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Sews.
(c) Sings.
(d) Reads aloud.

4. What kind of music does Zorrie say she wants to buy?
(a) Modern music.
(b) Russian.
(c) Religious.
(d) Classical.

5. Where does Zorrie travel with her blueberries and other gifts in Part III?
(a) Jennifer's house.
(b) Logansport State Hospital.
(c) The maternity ward at the local clinic.
(d) Her aunt's house.

6. What does Noah do in Part IV that is dangerous and shocking?
(a) Sets his barn on fire.
(b) Kills his chickens.
(c) Tries to kill himself.
(d) Cuts down all his own trees.

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

8. What does Zorrie's would-be suitor say when he eventually gives up trying to win her over?
(a) He knows Zorrie still wants a child.
(b) He knows Noah loves her.
(c) He knows she does not feel the same way about him.
(d) He knows Zorrie might be gay.

9. What does Marie's revelation about the Radium make Zorrie think about her own past?
(a) She feels that the Radium had no effect on her life whatsoever.
(b) She feels that the Radium might have actually caused Harold's death.
(c) She feels that the Radium probably made her stronger.
(d) She feels guilty that ingesting the powder during pregnancy might have killed her baby.

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

11. What does Zorrie suddenly realize Noah thinks about her having visited Opal?
(a) He seems very pleased about it.
(b) He seems to have no opinion about it.
(c) He does not seem happy about it.
(d) He seems very angry about it.

12. What does Hank tell Zorrie about Noah and Opal that shocks her?
(a) Opal was married before Noah.
(b) They had children once.
(c) Noah was married before Opal.
(d) They are not married.

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

14. What does Opal cryptically tell Zorrie is "behind her face" in Part IV?
(a) Fear.
(b) Sadness.
(c) A smile.
(d) A cave all her own.

15. What does Zorrie tell Ruby about her hands right before she dies?
(a) She has a musician's hands.
(b) She has the prettiest pair of hands Zorrie has ever seen.
(c) She has a mother's hands.
(d) She has a painter's hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Noah do after Virgil dies?

2. What does Zorrie smell when she wakes at dawn one day in Part IV?

3. What does Zorrie tell Opal is about the only thing Noah likes?

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

5. Why does Noah do what he does in Part IV that is so shocking to the community?

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