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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. Who had Janie most wanted near her side at the end of her life?
(a) Her own mother.
(b) Marie.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her daughters.

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

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

4. What does Noah do after Virgil dies?
(a) Burns the trees in the field.
(b) Goes fishing all day.
(c) Cooks for the funeral.
(d) Confines himself to his room for a while.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Marie in Part IV?

2. Who does Oats take to spending all day with?

3. Who tells Zorrie about a nearby blueberry farm?

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

5. What does Zorrie invest in for her farm in the fifties?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Noah do in Part IV that seems like an act of desperation?

2. What is one splurge that Zorrie makes on herself after her trip to Ottawa?

3. Why does Zorrie consider classes for Oats?

4. What does Zorrie do regularly that Ruby and Noah think helps Virgil?

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

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

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

8. Who does Zorrie go to visit for the first time, and why?

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

10. What does Noah give Zorrie after Virgil's death?

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