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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Zorrie invest in for her farm in the fifties?
(a) A guard dog.
(b) New livestock.
(c) A second grain bin.
(d) Courgettes.

3. What happens to the Summers house after Ruby's death?
(a) Zorrie moves in.
(b) A deep silence descends.
(c) It is sold.
(d) Opal comes back to live there.

4. What does Zorrie buy new for herself in Part III?
(a) Shoes.
(b) A couch.
(c) A record player.
(d) A mixer.

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

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

7. What do the churchgoers do after Ruby's funeral?
(a) Have dinner at Zorrie's.
(b) Have a bonfire in her honor.
(c) Have lunch in the basement.
(d) Say prayers in the field.

8. What does Zorrie smell when she wakes at dawn one day in Part IV?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Death.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Chemicals.

9. Who finds Virgil after he dies?
(a) Henry.
(b) Zorrie.
(c) Noah.
(d) Harold.

10. What does Zorrie briefly consider doing about Oats?
(a) Giving her different food.
(b) Finding her a dog partner.
(c) Giving her away.
(d) Taking her to training classes.

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

12. What does Marie tell Zorrie about the Radium in Part III?
(a) It is very carcinogenic.
(b) It is still healthy for you.
(c) It is neither healthy or unhealthy for you.
(d) She still uses it even though she knows she should not.

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

14. 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.

15. Who tells Zorrie about a nearby blueberry farm?
(a) Ruby.
(b) Emily.
(c) Lester.
(d) Noah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pie does Zorrie make for Noah the first time she brings him dinner in Part IV?

2. What does Noah do in Part IV that is dangerous and shocking?

3. What does Zorrie tell Opal that Harold used to say she was as smart as?

4. Who does Zorrie go to visit for the first time in Part III?

5. What does Lester do with some of the profits from the great harvest?

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