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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. Mawmaw wants to do what to Dwayne's name on the memorial?
(a) Get a paper impression from it.
(b) Color it.
(c) Touch it.
(d) Cover it up.

2. How does the Coke she drinks in the morning make her feel?
(a) Dizzy and sick.
(b) Energized.
(c) Like a kid.
(d) Light headed.

3. What makes Irene's hair look like Mrs. Biggs' forsythia bush?
(a) The humidity.
(b) Rat combing and Aquanet.
(c) Too much blond dye.
(d) Her new curly permanent.

4. What artist has a video on MTV that Sam recognizes as she pours herself a Pepsi while talking to her mother?
(a) Ozzy Osbourne.
(b) Poison.
(c) Bon Jovi.
(d) Twisted Sister.

5. Where does Sam let Emmett out so she can drive around the parking lot while he shops?
(a) Kroger's.
(b) K Mart.
(c) Penney's.
(d) Sureway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What greets Sam when she gets back to her house?

2. Where did Irene and Dwayne get married?

3. While the transmission of the VW is being fixed, Sam goes where?

4. How does the V.A. treat Tom's sexual dysfunction problem?

5. Mawmaw sets a platter of what on the table to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Dwayne's journal, what happens when he follows the Vietcong?

2. How does Emmett react to Sam's admonishment of her father's feelings toward the war that he expressed in his journal?

3. Why does a curious pleasure steal over Sam as she hears someone approaching on the boardwalk at Caewood's Pond?

4. How does Irene describe Bob?

5. How does Sam speculate on how women would run the world if they had the power men had?

6. Why hadn't the the previous occupant of Sam's house, Bessie, thrown away the liquor bottles her husband had drunk from?

7. What do the arms of the willow tree shadowed on her wall remind Sam of?

8. What does Sam think would have happened if her parents had waited to have her until Dwayne got back from the war?

9. Why does Sam make her mother's bed up with two fitted bottom sheets?

10. How does Sam perceive the Washington Monument and the flag near the Vietnam Memorial?

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