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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 do Mr. Ryan and Mr. Arnold get into a fight about?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Politics.
(c) A woman.
(d) Food.
2. What is Leslie's nickname for Will?
(a) Poppy.
(b) Old Pappy.
(c) Dad.
(d) Pops.
3. What makes Will jump out of the car and pace?
(a) He is suddenly afraid of the dark.
(b) He is worried that he will shoot himself in the car.
(c) He thinks he sees his father's ghost.
(d) He has a realization about life.
4. What does Will say when Jack suggests that he take up railroading?
(a) He's going back to Allison.
(b) He'd rather watch movies.
(c) He's taking up the pipe.
(d) He's taking up senior golf.
5. What is the one part about her new life in the greenhouse that Allison doesn't like?
(a) Always being dirty.
(b) Not having a job.
(c) Not having enough to eat.
(d) Loneliness.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Allison suggest they hire as a bookkeeper?
2. What psychical feature gives away how long Will was in the cave?
3. What does Will propose to do for the man he met on the bus?
4. What time of day is it when Kitty wakes Will in his car?
5. What does Allison assure Dr. Vance when she tells him that Will is at her place?
Short Essay Questions
1. What forces Will to leave the cave?
2. What urgent message does Bernie have for Will when Will gets back home after being away in the cave and the greenhouse?
3. What happens to Will's guns at the end of the novel?
4. How does Allison find Will?
5. After Will falls into the greenhouse, what is it that makes Allison think she knows who he is before she sees his face?
6. What are the two things that Will has to tell Allison when he returns to the greenhouse?
7. What skills do the three old guys who Will befriends in the convalescent home possess?
8. When Will sees himself in the mirror of his Mercedes after leaving the greenhouse, what does he think he looks like?
9. How does Allison feel about doing the errands that Will asks her to do?
10. What psychological breakthrough does Will make as he sits in his car thinking?
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