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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laurel hope to find in Judge's library besides her mother's letters?
(a) Proof that he was her father.
(b) Anything that would explain her father more clearly to her.
(c) The will.
(d) Speeches he wrote when he was mayor.

2. Who do the bridesmaids remember over dinner?
(a) Judge and his first wife.
(b) Their own children.
(c) Laurel's husband.
(d) Childhood friends.

3. What did Fay leave unmade before going to New Orleans?
(a) The bed.
(b) A quilt.
(c) A party guest list.
(d) Breakfast.

4. Who was the optimist?
(a) Laurel's mother.
(b) Laurel.
(c) Judge .
(d) Fay.

5. Who does Laurel hope to never see again?
(a) The bridesmaids.
(b) Fay's mother.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Fay.

6. What does Fay do when she sees Judge?
(a) Fay ignores Judge's coffin altogether.
(b) Fay apologizes to Judge for being difficult.
(c) Fay declares her love for Judge.
(d) Fay demands Judge get out of the coffin.

7. What does the pain symbolize to Laurel?
(a) Valentines.
(b) Fay's imprint on everything in Judge's life.
(c) Judge's death.
(d) Blood.

8. Who would legally inherit the house if there is no will?
(a) Fay.
(b) Laurel.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Miss Adele.

9. What did her father's death teach Laurel's mother?
(a) To always remember her yearly medical checkup.
(b) To always know herself.
(c) To know the symtoms of a heart attack.
(d) To never go on vacation alone.

10. What is Laurel looking for in her father's library?
(a) The will.
(b) Judge's checkbook.
(c) Love letters.
(d) The deed to the house.

11. Why does Fay want to go to Texas?
(a) To go to a spa.
(b) To bury Judge.
(c) To be with her familiy.
(d) To visit an old boyfriend.

12. What do the old women talk about?
(a) The weather.
(b) The funeral.
(c) Fay.
(d) Judge.

13. What disturbs Laurel during the funeral service?
(a) The noises from the new interstate.
(b) A woodchuck peeking up under the coffin.
(c) Fay's crying.
(d) A mosquito.

14. What do the old women ask Laurel not to do?
(a) Bake bread.
(b) Go back to Chicago.
(c) Find the will.
(d) Work in the garden.

15. Where does the bird come from?
(a) The garage.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The dining room.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Laurel feel about her father's things?

2. How does Fay react to her family's arrival?

3. What do the old women think Judge lost?

4. What was significant about the death of Laurel's grandfather?

5. Where is Laurel's mother from?

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