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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 color nightdress did Alice wear in Chapter 9?
(a) White.
(b) Peach.
(c) Pink.
(d) Lavender.

2. What was the name of Fred's wife?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Selena.
(c) Priscilla.
(d) Margaret.

3. How many miles deep does someone need to go in the forest below Arnott's Ridge to find a dense silence?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. In Chapter 5, what injury did Sven say that William Kenworth had?
(a) Lost an eye.
(b) Lost an arm.
(c) Lost a leg.
(d) Hurt his back.

5. When was a law created that called for segregated libraries for different races?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1931.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what color scarf does Margery get for Fred as a gift from the librarians?

2. In Chapter 3, what time does Alice get up in the morning?

3. In Chapter 9, when were most babies born in Baileyville?

4. What time did Margery and Sven wake in Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 14, how many months does Margery think she is pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fred make a way for Alice to have dinner with him in Chapter 15?

2. In Chapter 6, why did Alice no longer enjoy the weekly church dinners?

3. What does Alice take to the Horner girls in Chapter 11, and what does she get in return?

4. In Chapter 8, what did Garrett's mother say to Alice at Garrett's wake?

5. What did Kathleen Bligh ask Alice to do in Chapter 4, and what were the results?

6. What might a librarian wear to keep warm in Chapter 14?

7. In Chapter 12, who steps up to help the librarians and why?

8. What does Margery tell Alice about a man hitting a woman in Chapter 12?

9. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what did agents for land companies do in Kentucky?

10. In Chapter 3, how did Alice suggest that Izzy ride a horse?

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