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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 Athey's physical condition?
(a) He has Diabetes.
(b) He has lung cancer.
(c) He has tuberculosis.
(d) He has been having strokes.

2. What is an ever-present threat to Jayber?
(a) Flood.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Fire.
(d) Hurricane.

3. Jayber feels that Cecelia Overhold and ________________ are the two loneliest people in town.
(a) Troy Chatham.
(b) Jayber Crow.
(c) Maggie Chatham.
(d) Burley Coulter.

4. What does Jayber feel for Cecelia and Troy?
(a) Spite.
(b) Anger.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Sympathy.

5. How is Mattie's daughter killed?
(a) Congenital heart disease.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Hit by a car.
(d) Drowning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls to Jayber in a dream?

2. What does Jayber feel for Mattie?

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Mattie?

4. Who is Mattie's only surviving child?

5. Who does Jayber take to a Christmas dance at a roadhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What allows Jayber to forgive Cecelia and Troy even though they are both people he does not like?

2. What is Jayber's life like once he moves to the river?

3. Describe Jayber's move to the cabin and how he feels about such a transition.

4. How is Mattie's daughter killed?

5. Where do Jayber and Mattie meet occasionally and what is the nature of their meetings?

6. How does Jayber struggle by being married to Mattie in his heart only?

7. What does Jayber consider to be the biggest difference between Troy and Mattie?

8. What are the sad circumstances that allow Jayber to spend more time with Mattie?

9. What does Jayber realize as he begins to pray again?

10. What lesson does the young Athey learn when his father puts him in charge of killing hogs one day?

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