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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'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 Zorrie might be gay.
(c) He knows Noah loves her.
(d) He knows she does not feel the same way about him.

2. What does Zorrie tell Noah right after Virgil dies?
(a) Ruby could use some company and support.
(b) Opal needs Noah.
(c) Oats needs Noah.
(d) She needs Noah's help.

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

4. What does Opal tell Zorrie her doctors have told her?
(a) She is not doing well lately.
(b) She should get a divorce.
(c) She might be able to get out soon.
(d) She will likely live a long time.

5. What does Noah give Zorrie right after Virgil dies?
(a) His coat.
(b) A new puppy.
(c) His Montaigne book.
(d) A flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Noah put around his father's body after he dies?

2. Who is Lester's wife?

3. Why does Zorrie have to slaughter her pigs?

4. Who had Janie most wanted near her side at the end of her life?

5. What does Hank tell everyone about the fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Noah react to his father Virgil's death?

2. What does Zorrie start doing for Noah regularly in Part IV?

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

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

5. Who tries to woo Zorrie in Part III and how does it end up?

6. What does Zorrie bring Opal when she goes to see her, and how does Opal react?

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

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

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

10. In Part IV, who does Hank ask to keep an eye on Noah, and why does he ask this?

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