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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jeff finds the girl's ____________ appealing and he likes the way she is helpless to the music.
(a) Determination
(b) Voice
(c) Beauty
(d) Intelligence

2. Who called the Professor and told him about Jeff's performance in school, though Jeff had tried to hide it?
(a) Melody
(b) No one, the Professor knew
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) The principal

3. A girl seems to be drawn against her will by the ______________ when Jeff is outside.
(a) Wind
(b) Sunshine
(c) Music
(d) Herons

4. Melody says that she couldn't be happy knowing about the situation in ___________ and doing nothing.
(a) Max's life
(b) His heart
(c) The Professor's life
(d) Columbia

5. The lawyer tells Jeff that Gambo had decided that the ______________ descendant should inherit her estate.
(a) Poor
(b) Kind
(c) Male
(d) Blood

6. Where does Jeff begin to hang out in order to spend more time with Dicey?
(a) Music store
(b) Movies
(c) Grocery store
(d) Arcade

7. Phil tells Jeff it must be great to have a _____________ mother like Melody in his life.
(a) Beautiful
(b) Angry
(c) Loving
(d) Kind

8. Who does Jeff invite out on his boat once school finally lets out for the year?
(a) Peter Smith
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Phil Milson
(d) Andy Barrows

9. Jeff realizes that Dicey is as private and solitary in her grief as _____________.
(a) The Professor
(b) Melody
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) He is

10. What does the Professor show to Jeff at the end of October, though he does not show any expression as to how he feels about it?
(a) His published book
(b) His old guitar
(c) The divorce papers
(d) His wedding pictures

11. What does Jeff decide to invite Brother Thomas to do in order to make him feel better?
(a) Go crabbing
(b) Invite him to live with them
(c) Go to a concert
(d) Play a song for him

12. When Dicey's ______________ dies, Jeff understands and he knows to leave her alone.
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Brother
(d) Sister

13. ____________ tells Jeff he worries he might be losing touch with Jeff again.
(a) The Professor
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Andy
(d) Phil

14. Jeff feels that if he didn't keep all of his emotions hidden away, he would fall apart into ______________.
(a) A pile of feathers
(b) A mess
(c) A quiet song
(d) Broken pieces

15. Dicey asks Jeff to go _____________ and he almost says no, but accepts and is glad that he did.
(a) To the prom
(b) Sailing
(c) To the bar
(d) To her room

Short Answer Questions

1. The lawyer that is coming to visit the Professor and Jeff is the lawyer of ______________.

2. Jeff realizes that Melody and his principal at the University School tried to make him believe he wasn't ______________.

3. Jeff suggests that Melody keep the _____________ instead of selling it.

4. Jeff has emotionally gone inside of himself, to a small ______ where he locked the memories of his day and night spent on the beach.

5. Jeff tells the Professor that Melody had said she would have taken him with her had Jeff been _____________.

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