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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best word to describe the scene between father and son when it becomes clear that Philip intends to kill himself?
(a) Horrific
(b) Fearful
(c) Poignant
(d) Thrilling

2. What is Paris's answer to his father's idea to leave together?
(a) Paris refuses to leave
(b) Paris leaves willingly
(c) Paris wants to tell his mother he is leaving
(d) Paris is excited to leave the farm

3. What is John's profession of an architect a metaphor of?
(a) Housing a family
(b) Rebuilding Mollie and Paris's lives
(c) Building a new way of thinking
(d) Stiking out on his own

4. What does John talk about that brightens the mood of both Mollie and Paris?
(a) The fate of the farm
(b) The memory of Philip
(c) Their new house and life together
(d) The love and support of Sister

5. What happens to Mollie's attitude after she hears John's story about the sailor?
(a) She gets more depressed
(b) She begins to understand
(c) She remains paralyzed
(d) She laughs

6. How does Mother Lovejoy show that Paris is now the one she will love the most?
(a) By promising him a new home
(b) By promising him a new father
(c) By promising him a new life
(d) By promising him an inheritance

7. What is the core reason or feeling why Paris does not go with his father?
(a) Faith
(b) True fear
(c) Intuition
(d) Disobedience

8. What does Philip believe his only course of action because Mollie does not understand how much he loves her?
(a) To leave and take Paris with him
(b) To force Mollie to come with them and start over
(c) To try one more time to resolve their love
(d) To kidnap Mollie

9. What does Philip's desire to get Paris to leave with him stem from?
(a) Fear of going on without Mollie
(b) Fear of being alone
(c) Pure evil
(d) His ultimate desire to live

10. What is the story that John tells when relating to Paris's story regarding his father?
(a) A sailor that drowned himself
(b) A sailor who kept pulling down John with him
(c) A sailor who was sad
(d) A sailor who killed himself

11. What does John believe is the basis for his calculations of all human conditions?
(a) Safety or danger
(b) Sin or love
(c) Genius or paralysis
(d) Love or danger

12. What has Philip done to convince Mollie that he loves her?
(a) Everything he can
(b) Used his son to get to her
(c) Become enraged with passion over her
(d) Threatened her

13. Is Mollie awake when Philip leaves?
(a) She is just waking
(b) She was awake, then falls back to sleep
(c) No
(d) Yes

14. What is Philip's rationale for escaping with Paris?
(a) Philip needs to find work
(b) He must prove his is not mad
(c) They need to start over
(d) Nothing else has worked to gain Mollie's love back

15. What kind of surroundings does Philip prefer now as opposed to his boyhood?
(a) Philip prefers people around him
(b) Philip prefers the forest
(c) Philip prefers only the company of Mollie
(d) Philip prefers the darkness

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Mother Lovejoy chosen to use as a form of transportation as opposed to a taxi to get to the train station?

2. Where does Philip tell Paris he intends to go with him?

3. Who serves as the main voice of reason for Mollie during her grief?

4. Upon hearing the news of Mollie's packing, what does Philip want Paris to do?

5. Which character tries most to console Mollie in her most desperate, grieving time?

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