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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 Luke's plan for Matt?
(a) He will take care of Katie.
(b) He will marry Sara.
(c) He will go to college.
(d) He will take over the family farm.

2. Which of the following were NOT neighbors of the Morrison family?
(a) Frank Janie.
(b) Stanley Vernon.
(c) Jackson Pye.
(d) Barry Galloway.

3. Where is the Morrison funeral held?
(a) Family farm.
(b) Church yard.
(c) Crematory.
(d) Mausoleum.

4. Grandmother Morrison recognized the importance of __________________.
(a) education.
(b) family.
(c) money.
(d) religion.

5. What has caused some friction between Katie and her current boyfriend?
(a) She won't go to his family reunion.
(b) She refuses to move in with him.
(c) She won't tell him she loves him.
(d) She tells him nothing about her past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Luke rebuff the sexual advances?

2. In the prologue, Katie states that her Grandmother Morrison had a ______________ fixed to her spinning wheel.

3. What do the neighbors continue to bring to the Morrison children?

4. What does Katie do with Bo while Luke talks to Miss Carrington?

5. What is Katie doing when Daniel arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mary Lawson's nationality, and how does she write about her native country?

2. How does the author set up a subtle conflict related to Grandmother Morrison and how it will extend to affect Katie and Matt someday.

3. Why did Luke fear for his job at the McLean farm at one point?

4. What does Katie recall Miss Vernon telling her about Jackson Pye's sons and her intentions toward one of them?

5. What does Katie tell Daniel when he asks to know more about her family?

6. What does Katie recall about a fight between Laurie Pye and a school bully one day?

7. What does Katie overhear regarding Matt during a conversation between Aunt Annie and Miss Carrington?

8. How does the author use foreshadowing regarding Katie's recollection of one of Jackson Pye's sons?

9. How do the Morrison children learn that their parents have been killed?

10. What does Katie recall about the days after her parents' deaths?

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