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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the questions that Jack asks Andy?
(a) How his mother is doing.
(b) What he plans to do with his life.
(c) What the weather looks like it is going to do.
(d) How business in town is doing.

2. What does the preacher do during Jack's service?
(a) He gives a lengthy concluding prayer.
(b) Sings.
(c) Prays the rosary.
(d) Talks about Jack and his accomplishments.

3. How does Jack feel about television?
(a) He never turns it off.
(b) He loves it.
(c) It is an annoyance.
(d) He could take it or leave it.

4. Who annoys Mat on the day of the funeral service?
(a) Clara.
(b) His wife.
(c) The preacher.
(d) Andy.

5. What is Mat's wife always working on?
(a) Writing a book.
(b) Their old, beat up car.
(c) A knitting project.
(d) Her kitchen.

6. In what way did Jack sacrifice for Clara?
(a) He provided a college education for her.
(b) He gave her the farm to run when he wanted to keep running it.
(c) He gave up his marriage for her.
(d) He purchased a store in town for her to run.

7. Who are the people who gather on Jack's farm in the Epilogue?
(a) Only women from town.
(b) The men of Port William.
(c) Men and women from town.
(d) Only family members.

8. How did the townspeople find out about the change in relationship between Jack and Rose?
(a) Their new business was announced in the paper.
(b) They made little attempt to conceal the relationship.
(c) Mat walked around and told the entire town.
(d) Jack's wife told everyone about their new relationship.

9. What does Jack's lawyer inform Jack's tenant when he arrives on the farm?
(a) That the farm is going to Clara.
(b) That the farm land is going to be donated to a developer in town.
(c) That the farm is going to be given to Mat.
(d) That Jack wanted the tenant to buy the farm at half price after his death.

10. Specifically, what do the people who gather to remember Jack recall about him?
(a) His idiosyncrasies and sayings.
(b) His looks.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His clothes.

11. Where did Ruth die?
(a) At Clara's house.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) At the farm house.
(d) In the ambulance.

12. After Jack asks Andy questions, what happens?
(a) Andy leaves abruptly.
(b) Andy starts asking Jack questions.
(c) The conversation comes to a lull.
(d) The two of them go into the house to have dessert.

13. After Ruth's death, what did Jack worry about?
(a) Who would cook his food.
(b) Who would run the farm.
(c) How he would live alone.
(d) How he could run the business that he had in town.

14. To whom was Rose McInnis married?
(a) A farmer.
(b) Jack's brother.
(c) An old doctor.
(d) She was Mat Feltner's first wife.

15. What is the reason for Mat's reaction to Jack's death?
(a) Mat did not think that it was time for Jack to die.
(b) They weren't that close.
(c) Jack had tried to take Mat's wife.
(d) They had been friends for over sixty years, but Mat knows it was time for Jack to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jack's lawyer's name?

2. Why does Mat have an unusual amount of energy on the day people come to pay their respects to Jack?

3. What object does Jack's lawyer see that has a picture of Jack's hero on it?

4. What became obvious to Jack regarding his relationship with Clara after Ruth's death?

5. How does Andy's girlfriend feel about their relationship?

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