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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall: Chapters 6-12, 42-90.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Evvie remarks that when Dean had first arrived, she had thought that he "listened like a" (73) what?
(a) Like a therapist.
(b) Like a census-taker.
(c) Like a pro.
(d) Like a good friend.

2. The end of the prologue states, "She later figured" that Tim had "probably died while she was waiting at the stoplight" (3) a block away from which landmark?
(a) The elementary school where they had first met.
(b) The county building where they had applied for their marriage license.
(c) The church where they got married.
(d) The parking lot where he had taught her how to drive.

3. Which character asks Evvie many questions about Dean on Thanksgiving Day?
(a) Andy.
(b) Kell.
(c) Dean.
(d) Monica.

4. When Dean is leaning toward accepting Ted's offer to help coach his team, he thinks to himself that he could at least counsel the kids not to take what action in the event any of them did become professional athletes?
(a) Get hooked on drugs.
(b) Push their bodies too hard.
(c) Get married.
(d) Give their money away frivolously.

5. In what gesture do Evvie and Dean engage after he expresses his gratitude for the way she had stood up to the woman on the porch?
(a) A high-five.
(b) A hug.
(c) A fist-bump.
(d) A shrug.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the small flowers on the dishes Evvie uses to host Thanksgiving in Chapter 11?

2. How many sons does Andy have with his ex-wife Lori?

3. Evvie tells Dean that when "You're twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of" (75) what?

4. Lori, the mother of Dean's children, lives in which southern U.S. town?

5. Which idiom-laden phrase does Evvie use to describe what had happened the one time Andy and Evvie had "earnestly tried to look meaningfully at each other" (17)?

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