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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What unusual gesture does Beth make toward Kerry?
(a) She pats Kerry's head
(b) She puts in a cartoon movie
(c) She holds her and strokes her hair
(d) She buys her a pizza
2. Beth wonders why Kerry is confident at all, since she grew up with
(a) So little attention from her mother
(b) Unhappy parents
(c) An indifferent brother
(d) So many people in the house
3. Why does Candy Bliss cry over Ben's photos?
(a) She is sorry she never found him
(b) She is sad that he looks so different
(c) She knows her career will change
(d) She feels sorry for Beth and Pat
4. Vincent considers his family's life to be like a
(a) A horror movie
(b) Soap opera
(c) A stage play
(d) A dramatic mini-series
5. Beth's romantic feelings about Nick are dissolved when she learns
(a) He has had affairs with other women
(b) He is really in love with his wife
(c) He has fathered other children
(d) He is an upstanding citizen
6. What does Beth realize about herself on this day/
(a) How much Ben's kidnapping was her fault
(b) How disengaged she has been from her family
(c) How little love she has given to Vincent
(d) How much her career is about to change
7. What seems to have happened to Beth on this day?
(a) Her hope is gone
(b) Her mental health seems restored
(c) Her depression has deepened
(d) Her desire to take pictures is gone
8. What do Sam and Reese do together that bonds them?
(a) They arm wrestle
(b) They ride bicycles
(c) They play video games
(d) They play basketball
9. Reese finally admits that in the hotel lobby he told little Ben to
(a) Go find his mother
(b) Go get a drink
(c) Get lost
(d) Go alone to the bathroom
10. Vincent and Ben begin to bond with
(a) A tug of war with a red bunny
(b) A huge argument over Kerry
(c) A discussion of their terrible mothers
(d) A basketball game and pizza
11. Ben assures Beth that his parents were
(a) Not bad people
(b) Controllling and harsh
(c) Sticklers for manners
(d) Somewhat sick
12. Beth is no longer grief stricken, but now only wants
(a) A new life as a single woman
(b) What is best for Ben
(c) An unbroken family
(d) Whatever Pat wants
13. Arranged in Ben's honor, the familly attends
(a) A formal reunion
(b) A celebratory picnic
(c) A special mass
(d) A religious counseling session
14. Turning to Nick for understanding about Sam's loneliness, Nick
(a) Wishes she would change the subject
(b) Thinks Vincent will bring Sam around
(c) Feels the same as Pat, that Sam will adjust
(d) Feels Pat is going to ruin Sam
15. Beth is considering
(a) Remarrying
(b) Being a waitress at the restaurant
(c) Putting Vincent in reform school
(d) Returning to college
Short Answer Questions
1. Vincent insists that, this night, Ben will
2. How does Pat Cappadora feel about finding Ben?
3. Why does Beth read English novels?
4. Pat begins sleeping on the couch when
5. When the Cappadoras enter the restaurant with Sam, people begin to have tears induced by
This section contains 560 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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