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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Fay's mother pity Laurel?
(a) She feels bad that Laurel is now an orphan.
(b) She knows Laurel is a widow and worries her father's death has brought back too many memories.
(c) She knows Laurel dislikes Fay.
(d) She believes no one is there to support and comfort Laurel.

2. Who is the portrait of hanging in Judge's library?
(a) His Union father.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) Judge himself.
(d) His Confederate father.

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

4. Where does Laurel believe her home is?
(a) In her father's house.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Francisco.

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

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

7. Who is it suggested would do the cooking in the house?
(a) Fay.
(b) Fay's mother.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Laurel.

8. Where does Laurel find herself trapped after she traps the bird in the upstairs hall?
(a) Her childhood bedroom.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The master bedroom.
(d) The garage.

9. What does Fay take with her?
(a) Judge's checkbook.
(b) The china.
(c) A Virginia ham.
(d) The will.

10. Who does Laurel have dinner with in Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) Fay.
(b) Miss Adele.
(c) The bridesmaids.
(d) Missouri.

11. Who comforts Laurel after the funeral?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Major Bullock.
(c) Miss Adele.
(d) Fay.

12. Why do the old women dislike Fay?
(a) She will not gossip with them.
(b) She made Judge unhappy.
(c) She is shallow and unkind.
(d) She does not take care of the house.

13. How did Judge react to conflict at home?
(a) He enjoyed it.
(b) He blamed his wife for it.
(c) He caused it.
(d) He ignored it.

14. What does Laurel find in her father's library?
(a) Speeches from when he was mayor.
(b) The will.
(c) Love letters.
(d) Photographs.

15. What does everyone assume Fay will inherit?
(a) A car.
(b) The house.
(c) A boat.
(d) The law practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the bird come from?

2. Why would Judge want to keep evidence of his first wife from Fay?

3. Who walks Laurel home?

4. What does Laurel hope to find in Judge's library besides her mother's letters?

5. Who was the optimist?

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