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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the gas station attendant recognize?
(a) Oliver's truck.
(b) Oliver's name.
(c) Oliver's voice.
(d) Oliver's gas can.

2. How is Hadley treating Rebecca the day after Rebecca confided her life story to him?
(a) He is kind to her.
(b) He follows her around.
(c) He talks to her.
(d) He is avoiding her.

3. Why does Emily invite Sam to a party?
(a) To embarrass her ex-boyfriend.
(b) To help him make friends.
(c) To show him off.
(d) To introduce him to friends.

4. Who does Rebecca meet at the diner?
(a) An older woman named Mrs. Phipps.
(b) Hadley's mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Hadley.

5. Why does Joley believe this is why she was spared?
(a) God loves her.
(b) Luck.
(c) Only souls at peace can go to heaven.
(d) Fate.

6. When the waitress flirts with him, what does he do?
(a) He gives her a five-dollar tip and his spare room key card.
(b) He gives her a ten-dollar tip.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He thanks her for her time.

7. Why do Jane and Rebecca decide to sell the car?
(a) They want a cheaper one.
(b) They want a nicer one.
(c) They want a newer one.
(d) They want a bigger one.

8. Where does Jane long to be?
(a) With someone else.
(b) Back in college.
(c) On a sunny beach.
(d) Back in the early years of their marriage when Oliver spoke to her about his discoveries.

9. What does Hadley explain to Rebecca about Sam?
(a) He is not very nice.
(b) He is an angry man.
(c) He is not fond of girls raised in the suburbs of Boston, like Newton.
(d) He does not know how to talk to women.

10. When Jane stained the oak door to Oliver's office, why did she shriek?
(a) He scared her.
(b) She spilled the stain on her clothes.
(c) She saw the face of the devil in the wood grain.
(d) The stain smelled bad.

11. Does Joseph Tall Neck believe Jane's story?
(a) Not at first.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

12. With what was Sam fascinated when he was a child?
(a) His sister's broken gramophone.
(b) His mother's broken gramophone.
(c) His brother's broken gramophone.
(d) His father's broken gramophone.

13. How old are Sam and Hadley?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-five.

14. Where do Sam, Hadley, Jane, Rebecca and Joley go for a picnic and to swim?
(a) Pickerington Pond.
(b) Poughkeepsie Park.
(c) Portage Park.
(d) Pickerel Pond.

15. What can Jane's snobbishness not accept?
(a) Happiness outside of fame.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Happiness outside of wealth.
(d) Happiness outside of greater academic achievement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rebecca do to stay warm?

2. Emotionally repressed Oliver attempts to get back to work by doing what?

3. Jane and Rebecca arrive in Minneapolis in time for what?

4. When Tall Neck sells a convertible MG to Jane, of what is he unaware?

5. On July 15, 1990, Jane takes Rebecca to a YMCA to swim in what city?

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