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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. Why does Sam undergo two operations?
(a) He has trouble hearing.
(b) He cannot walk.
(c) He is cross-eyed.
(d) He has cancer.

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

3. What does Jane remember about the day before her wedding?
(a) She spent the evening with her mother.
(b) She woke up screaming and did not understand why.
(c) She woke up a little nervous and very excited.
(d) She was so excited she could not sleep.

4. On July 25, 1990, fifteen-year-old Rebecca is hitchhiking to Hadley's mother's home alone on a rainy night with whom?
(a) Two lecherous truckers.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Hadley.
(d) Sam.

5. How long do Jane and Oliver date before they make love?
(a) Five years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Oliver not be at Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

2. How does Oliver confidently form a plan to track Jane and Rebecca?

3. After years of being unwilling to swim, what happens to Jane?

4. Why does Joley feel this way about sending Rebecca back to Oliver?

5. Why do Jane and Rebecca decide to sell the car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joley write in his letter to Jane at Fishtrap, Montana?

2. Describe the story about the neighbor's house fire.

3. How does Jane feel about her father's death?

4. What happens when Jane and Rebecca meet Joseph Tall Neck?

5. Describe the story Jane tells about being ten and goose hunting with her father.

6. Where do Oliver and Jane long to be?

7. How are Jane and Rebecca's role reversed?

8. What does Oliver do, now that Rebecca and Jane have left?

9. What does Joley write in his second letter to Jane?

10. Why do Sam, Hadley, and Joley tell stupid jokes?

(see the answer keys)

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