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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Summers house after Ruby's death?

2. What does Marie's revelation about the Radium make Zorrie think about her own past?

3. Why does Noah tell Zorrie Virgil kept going to church, even though he did not think much of it in his later years?

4. Who dies from Zorrie's past in Part III?

5. What does Zorrie buy new for herself in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, why does Zorrie feel new grief over her miscarriage many years earlier?

2. What happens between Oats and Virgil in Part III?

3. In Part III, what does it break Zorrie's heart to be forced to do on her farm?

4. What does Zorrie eventually realize is Noah's reason for setting the fire in Part IV?

5. What does Hank tell Zorrie about Opal and Noah in Part IV that shocks her?

6. What does Marie tell Zorrie that Janie had thought of Zorrie at the end of Janie's life?

7. What does Ruby get for Zorrie to try to help with Zorrie's loneliness?

8. In Part III, why does Zorrie travel to Ottawa?

9. What is one reason that Zorrie realizes she might not have been interested in her suitor in Part III?

10. What horrifies all the women who used to work at the radium factory in Part III?

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