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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 Willard begin doing again?
(a) Giving Charlotte quake medicines to try to help her.
(b) Making Arvin stay with his grandmother during the week days.
(c) Making Arvin stay home from school to pray.
(d) Sacrificing animals.

2. About what does Dunlap taunt Willard?
(a) The disparity in the two men's incomes.
(b) That Willard's wife has her eye on Dunlap.
(c) That Arvin is small for his age.
(d) That Dunlap will never sell the house to a loser.

3. What does Arvin say does not work?
(a) Telling the truth.
(b) Nothing works.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Being good.

4. What does Roy empty over his head?
(a) A bottle of whiskey.
(b) A jar of spiders.
(c) A jar of snakes.
(d) A bottle of beer.

5. How is Charlotte's funeral described?
(a) As highly attended.
(b) As lavishly done.
(c) Willard does not have a funeral.
(d) As sparsely attended.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stops by where Arvin and his father are?

2. What does Willard explain to his son about Willard's actions?

3. Where does Willard put the animal carcasses?

4. What does Arvin's father tell Arvin to do about the situation with other?

5. Where does the bus make a stop on Willard's way home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long have the Russells lived in Mitchell Flats and how does that affect the townpeople's attitude towards them and Arvin's time at school?

2. What happens one night when Willard wakes Arvin?

3. From whom does Willard rent a house and how does the man verbally abuse Willard?

4. Describe the church revival Willard attends with Emma.

5. What happens when Arvin turns ten and how does Willard plan to fix it?

6. What does Bodecker learn when he visits the bar where Sandy works?

7. What would keep Willard from coming out to the prayer clearing and what does Arvin think of either activity?

8. About what does Deputy Sheriff Bodecker fantasize?

9. What happens to the young, attractive soldier that Carl and Sandy pick up?

10. How does Carl convince young men to have sex with Sandy and what does Carl do after they have sex?

(see the answer keys)

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