View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of personality does Norman's brother-in-law have?
(a) Difficult
(b) Pleasant
(c) Engaging
(d) Funny

2. What do Norman and Paul see when they return from fishing?
(a) A rainbow
(b) An approaching thunderstorm
(c) Neal and Old Rawhide asleep, naked in the sun
(d) A group of kids skinny dipping in the river

3. What happens to humiliate Paul?
(a) He has to be bailed out of jail by Norman.
(b) He is rejected by a woman in a bar.
(c) He falls down outside a bar.
(d) He does not have enough money to pay his bar tab.

4. Why do Norman and Paul get a late start the next morning?
(a) They were reading the Sunday paper.
(b) Mrs. Maclean fixes a huge breakfast.
(c) Mr. Maclean cannot find his fishing gear.
(d) They slept in.

5. One day when Norman and Paul are fishing, Neal arrives with a woman named Old Rawhide that he met ___________________.
(a) at the country club
(b) at a bar
(c) at a seminar
(d) at church

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the family decides to leave?

2. What is Norman's brother-in-law's major problem?

3. Why are Jessie and her mother tending to Jessie's brother?

4. What does Norman do after he takes Paul and his girlfriend back to Paul's house?

5. What does Norman and Paul's father do with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Norman and Paul receive in the form of sermons from their father?

2. On what is the story based?

3. What is Reverend Maclean's second passion after religion?

4. Who goes on the fishing trip the next morning?

5. What is the occupation of Norman and Paul's father?

6. Why does Paul try to avoid Norman?

7. What favor does Norman ask of his brother, Paul?

8. Why does Norman not remain to fish with Neal?

9. Where do the two brothers go fishing?

10. How does Norman react to Neal's arrival a few days later?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 634 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample