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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack tell the girls of his made-up stories?
(a) He confesses his worthlessness and names his faults.
(b) He confesses to his desire to run away.
(c) He confides in them his fears about his sister.
(d) He confides in them about his anger at this father.

2. What is one habit Jack's father takes up after the accident?
(a) Drinking beer all day.
(b) Chain smoking Lucky Strikes.
(c) Eating constantly.
(d) Talking in his sleep.

3. What does Jack notice about his sister as she is laying out the food?
(a) She is smiling and acting like she is playing house.
(b) She is falling asleep from exhaustion.
(c) She is weak with hunger.
(d) She is crying and very unhappy.

4. What does Jack use to push the manure in the barn into the gutters?
(a) A blunt wooden scraper.
(b) A long handled shovel.
(c) A push broom.
(d) A metal trowel.

5. What does Phoebe ask Jack as he begins his lunch?
(a) If he wants to say grace.
(b) If he wants a napkin.
(c) If he wants to join the others.
(d) If he needs more to drink.

6. When Jack's father is gone for days, who takes over the work of the farm?
(a) Jack and his uncles, nieghbors or cousins.
(b) Jack and hired help.
(c) Jack alone.
(d) Jack and his friends.

7. What is one thing Jack's father thinks about when riding his motorcycle?
(a) Selling the farm and moving away.
(b) Leaving his wife and family for another woman.
(c) Committing suicide.
(d) Committing murder.

8. What is in the basket Phoebe brings to Jack?
(a) Tuna, bread and cookies.
(b) Ham sandwiches and fresh fruit.
(c) Chicken, biscuits, carrots and ranch dip.
(d) Chicken, rolls, celery and salt.

9. What does Jack find off of the cow path?
(a) Blueberries and raspberries.
(b) Cherries and red raspberries.
(c) Cherries and apples.
(d) Huckleberries and blackberries.

10. What do his co-workers accept about Dale Hawthorne since his son has died?
(a) His father's death.
(b) HIs father's ways of handling his brother's death.
(c) His father's drinking.
(d) His father's refusal to work during harvest.

11. When does Jack feel almost happy and content?
(a) When visiting at the dinner table with his family
(b) When riding and singing on the tractor.
(c) When walking in the sunrise to bring in the herd.
(d) When asleep in his bed.

12. What is the difference in Jack's stories before and after the accident?
(a) Before they are of Attica prison breaks; after they are of movie stars.
(b) Before they are of superheroes; after they are of monsters.
(c) Before they were of conquest; after they are of guilt.
(d) Before they are of people; after they are of cows and horses.

13. What does Jack's father struggle with about his religious beliefs?
(a) Is there a Hell?
(b) How anyone could not believe in God.
(c) How God could let such a horrible thing happen to his child.
(d) How God could be in Heaven.

14. When Jack is on the tractor and a storm begins, what does he do?
(a) Goes to the barn and takes a nap.
(b) Rides to the edge of the field and waits for the storm to be over.
(c) Drives home like a dog in flight.
(d) Gets off and sits under a tree.

15. What part does Jack play in his made-up stories?
(a) All of the parts.
(b) The hero of the stories.
(c) The superhero.
(d) The narrator describing the action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Phoebe's attitude as she carries the basket filled with lunch up to the field hands?

2. Who does Jack's father blame for his son's death?

3. What does Jack notice as he takes a long sip from his drink during lunch?

4. How does Jack come to feel about his raging on the tractor?

5. What recitation of his father's does Jack recall as he suffers his anger and grief?

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