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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 is Phillip certain of in Chapter 8?
(a) The minister talked Mrs. Stockwell out of the marriage.
(b) His sisters hired someone to threaten Mrs. Stockwell.
(c) His sisters influenced Mrs. Stockwell not to marry Mr. Carver.
(d) Alex had a part in the situation.

2. What do Alex and Holly talk about when he goes to see her at her apartment?
(a) How to move Holly's things back into their apartment.
(b) Their families and the death of Holly's mother.
(c) Where they would like their next apartment to be.
(d) Who she has been dating since moving out.

3. With whom does Mrs. Carver spend much of her time on the Saturday outings?
(a) Her children.
(b) Mrs. Shackleford's mother and grandmother.
(c) Mrs. Shackleford.
(d) Mr. Carver.

4. Where do Phillip's sisters live after their father dies?
(a) They move back to their own homes.
(b) They move back to Nashville.
(c) They move to Paris.
(d) In their father's house.

5. How does Phillip begin his description of Mr. Carver and Mr. Shackleford?
(a) They are serious, not humorous or philosophizing.
(b) They are ruthless, and not concerned with others.
(c) They are shy and retiring.
(d) They are mature, and excellent dressers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Carvers move from Thornton to Nashville?

2. How long after the move to Nashville does Lewis Shackleford betray Mr. Carver?

3. How do the people in his family and of the town treat Mr. Carver when he is young?

4. What does Phillip come to realize his father has yearned for all of his life?

5. What do Betsy and Josephine tell Phillip in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, both Phillip and Holly begin to understand their fathers and see them as people. Holly encourages them both to go beyond forgiveness and forgetting and aspire to true understanding. How does Phillip remember his father's life growing up?

2. What is Betsy's stated reason for Father not going to see Lewis Shackleford in Chapter 11? What is the real reason?

3. In Chapter 9, Phillip visits Holly in her apartment in the hopes of a reconciliation. What do the two of them talk about for the first time openly and honestly? What has happened in Holly's life during their separation?

4. In Chapter 10, how does Lewis Shackleford see his friend, George Carver? What traits does he admire in his friend?

5. In Chapter 8, how does Phillip react to his sisters' actions? How does Alex react?

6. While at Sunday supper with his family at Owl Mountain in Chapter 11, Phillip sees both Clara Price and Lewis Shackleford in the dining room. How does Phillip react to both of these important people?

7. In Chapter 8, Betsy and Josephine have prepared a bed for Phillip in their father's study. However, Phillip does not stay. He leaves his father and sisters and returns to New York. Why does he not remain and defend his father against his sisters? Why does Phillip leave so hastily?

8. In Chapter 8, Alex, Phillip and Father pull up to the house from the church. What is happening as they arrive? Why?

9. In Chapter 7, what happens at the church? How does Mr. Carver react to the news? What does he say to Alex and Phillip?

10. While George Carver and his wife are in St, Louis for business, what happens to the Mr. Shackleford's company? How does Mr. Carver react to this news?

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