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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. How old is Larry?
(a) 44
(b) 24
(c) 64
(d) 34

2. Where does Charity's family live?
(a) Kennebunkport
(b) New York
(c) Cambridge
(d) Battell Pond

3. Why does Larry write so much during his first year of teaching?
(a) He is anti social
(b) He keeps his teaching skills sharp
(c) Fear of being laid off for lack of being published
(d) He likes to write as a hobby

4. What does Charity tell her mother and aunt about Sid?
(a) He is a wolf
(b) He is painfully shy
(c) He is cunning
(d) He is a pushover

5. Where does Larry take Sally?
(a) The hospital
(b) The clinic
(c) To Charity's house
(d) To church

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it when the novel opens?

2. What is the purpose of Larry and Sally's trip?

3. What has Charity's father been working on for the past ten years?

4. How is Sid characterized?

5. Where do Larry and Sally go on Friday night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What work does Larry do?

2. Describe how Charity is modeling her marriage and household off her mother's style.

3. What is Charity's model of an ideal marriage and how will it affect her own marriage to Sid?

4. Explain the different attitudes of Sid's and Larry's fathers regarding their sons' professions?

5. Explain how one of the novel's themes of rescue is important in Part 1: Chapter 10.

6. Who is the dominant person in each of the two marriages?

7. What happens that gives Larry a bad premonition?

8. How does the evening of the party end for the Morgans and the Langs?

9. In addition to the enthusiastic welcome, what else strikes Larry and Sally about Sid and Charity Lang?

10. Why have Larry and Sally come to visit Sid and Charity?

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