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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Oliver first meet Jane?
(a) They are in the same biology course.
(b) He runs into her on the beach.
(c) He sees her at a party.
(d) He finds her purse in the tide pool so he returns it to the address listed inside the purse.

2. What has Sam put into the car?
(a) Bushels of apples.
(b) A card.
(c) A ring.
(d) A note.

3. Immediately after Sam sees Oliver's media plea, where does he go?
(a) To his room.
(b) For a jog.
(c) Into town.
(d) For a walk in the woods.

4. Between what does Jane feel torn?
(a) Pleasing herself or her daughter.
(b) Her desire to be home and with Sam.
(c) Staying married and getting divorced.
(d) Her love for Oliver and her love for Sam.

5. Why does Rebecca suggest that Jane dislikes Sam?
(a) He is uneducated.
(b) He is unhappy.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is ugly.

6. What does Oliver demand of Sam?
(a) That he stay home.
(b) That he call the police.
(c) That he go with him in his car to get Rebecca.
(d) That he ride separately from him.

7. What does Joley describe in this chapter?
(a) His journeys.
(b) His childhood.
(c) His family.
(d) Different kinds of love.

8. After a non-stop, three-day drive from Iowa, where does Oliver arrive?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A bar.
(c) The orchard.
(d) The 24-hour Blue Diner in Boston, Massachusetts.

9. What does Jane tell Rebecca when she wakes?
(a) Oliver is leaving.
(b) Hadley died quickly and his funeral is tomorrow.
(c) She wiill be headed home tomorrow.
(d) Hadley might survive.

10. How does Jane learn that Oliver is proclaiming his love for her?
(a) She turns on the news.
(b) She receives a phone call.
(c) Rebecca tells her.
(d) Sam tells her.

11. What museum does Joley instruct Jane to go to?
(a) The Body Exhibit.
(b) The John Hopkins Medical Museum.
(c) The Chicago Museum of Art.
(d) The MoMA.

12. In his letter to Jane, of what does Joley remind Jane?
(a) Of the time he ran away from home.
(b) Of the time their father abused Jane.
(c) Of the time their father broke two of mother's ribs.
(d) Of the time their mother left.

13. In what does Oliver get his Master's from Harvard?
(a) Biochemistry.
(b) Biology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Marine biology.

14. What does Jane tell Oliver as she sets up a three-day vigil at Rebecca's bedside?
(a) About her love for Sam.
(b) She is sorry and she loves him.
(c) She wants a divorce.
(d) About her trip.

15. What happens to Jane after her mother leaves?
(a) Her father molests her.
(b) Joley calls her name.
(c) She goes to the neighbor's home.
(d) Her father leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rebecca do when she realizes what has happened between her mother and Sam?

2. What does Oliver observe about the aircraft ruins?

3. What does Mica do after listening to Oliver's tale of woe?

4. Where do Sam and Oliver find Hadley and Rebecca asleep?

5. What does Oliver yearn to do?

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