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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 does Montgomery buy at the hardware shop?
(a) A chainsaw.
(b) A wrench, screwdriver and screws
(c) Twine, brown paper, and a rope.
(d) A measuring tape and nails.

2. After visiting Whitewater, what does Montgomery think of as he lays sleepless?
(a) Running away.
(b) All the women in his life.
(c) Buying a new car.
(d) Going on vacation.

3. What does Montgomery consider asking Charlie for?
(a) A ride home.
(b) A tour around town.
(c) A loan.
(d) Directions.

4. What has actually happened to these missing items?
(a) They got burned in a fire.
(b) They were put into a vault.
(c) His mother sold them.
(d) They were stolen in a robbery.

5. How do people at the university feel about Montgomery?
(a) They hate him.
(b) They don't respect him.
(c) They adore him.
(d) They admire him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charlie French take Montgomery as a kid?

2. If not in his current situation, where would Montgomery have gotten the money to repay his loan?

3. How do his mother and the stable hand react when he asks about the missing items?

4. What gives Montgomery a feeling of grief as he stands in his mother's kitchen?

5. What is the stable hand's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the details of Montgomery's engagement and marriage to Daphne important?

2. Why would the drug baron make Montgomery leave his family behind while Montgomery gets the money he owes the baron?

3. Why do you think the people who Randolph borrowed money from to give to Montgomery cut off Randolph's ear?

4. Mr. Behrens says the paintings he bought from Montgomery's mother were "not suited to be at Whitewater." How is this statement ironic to Montgomery's sense of reality?

5. Montgomery describes his old home as in disrepair and falling apart. At the same time, his mother tells him that he has gained weight. Why is it important that these two incidences are told together in Montgomery's story?

6. What is the relationship between Charlie French and Montgomery?

7. In the beginning of the novel, Montgomery makes a point to say he is not a homosexual. Why does he continue to make references to homosexuals, as when comparing his lawyer to a boy he believes was in love with him when he was a child?

8. Montgomery's counsel forces him to say that he wanted to kill his father so he could marry his mother. Montgomery claims this isn't true. Why would his counsel force him to tell this lie?

9. Why does the author switch back and forth from past to present?

10. A car bomb explodes while Anna Behrens is leaving the hospital with her father. What is the symbolism of the car bomb?

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