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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Evvie recalls that just a few days after she had packed the car to leave Tim, he had referred to her career as a transcriber with what other term?
(a) Typist.
(b) Scribbler.
(c) Housewife.
(d) Student.

2. What kinds of visuals are featured on the pinball machine Dean decides to purchase?
(a) Models.
(b) Knives.
(c) Cars.
(d) Fairies.

3. Over dinner at the Stafford Hotel, Dean gives Evvie the key to which room in the hotel?
(a) 208.
(b) 212.
(c) 216.
(d) 204.

4. What does a yellow object stand for in Evvie's unique texting language?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Anger.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Friendship.

5. What name is used to refer to the annual exhibition game between the Claws and the Explorers?
(a) The Haymaker.
(b) The Jamboree.
(c) The Spring Dance.
(d) The Sweet Spot.

6. Evvie proposes at the end of Spring: Chapter 21 that Dean pitch how many innings in the Claws' exhibition game?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

7. To whom does Dean give the key to room number 208 in the Stafford Hotel?
(a) Andy.
(b) Himself.
(c) Eileen.
(d) Evvie.

8. How old had Evvie just turned when she first asked her father whether it was her fault that her mother had left them?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

9. Monica has a career in what field?
(a) Music.
(b) Forensic science.
(c) Forestry.
(d) Education.

10. In Spring: Chapter 26, Evvie reflects upon the fact that once which month arrives, it will have been two years since Tim's death?
(a) September.
(b) October.
(c) November.
(d) December.

11. Which one of Evvie's family members had once made a nasty comment about hair, causing her to enter a period of "battle" (191) with her natural appearance?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her paternal grandfather.
(c) Her paternal grandmother.
(d) Her uncle.

12. Andy tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 18 that he knows it had been whose suitcase in the back of Evvie's car the day of Tim's accident?
(a) Kell's.
(b) Tim's.
(c) Eileen's.
(d) Frank's.

13. For how many months has Evvie kept the secret about leaving Tim by the time Andy finds out the truth?
(a) 17.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

14. Who goes along to breakfast with Evvie and Andy the first time they enact their tradition in quite a while?
(a) Dean.
(b) Monica.
(c) Lila.
(d) Frank.

15. To which character is Evvie referring when she calls someone her first and "most important lucky break" (186)?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Andy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months does Evvie report it had taken her to fully absorb that her mother was never coming back to finish raising her?

2. For what length of time do Evvie and Dean drive before they reach the Stafford Hotel?

3. When Evvie and Dean arrive back at home after their trip to pick up Dean's pinball machine, Dean tells Evvie that he had thought several times that day about taking what action?

4. The baseball glove that Dean gives to Evvie in Spring: Chapter 21 is black and what other color?

5. How many sexual partners has Evvie had in total, including her late husband Tim?

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