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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 do both of Phil’s parents wonder about him?
(a) How he ended up so intelligent.
(b) Where they went wrong.
(c) If there is something wrong with him.
(d) Why he is so angry all the time.

2. Why do sissies bother Phil?
(a) He worries they will turn everyone into sissies.
(b) He fears them.
(c) He knows he is one.
(d) He does not understand why they cannot be normal.

3. Why does Phil initially not take George’s behavior towards Mrs. Gordon too seriously?
(a) He has never mentioned her.
(b) He has never been interested in a woman before.
(c) He has never brought her to the ranch.
(d) He has made it clear he does not have intentions to marry anyone.

4. How does Johnny feel about delivering his own son?
(a) Proud.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Concerned.
(d) Satisfied.

5. How does Phil feel when he imagines George caressing Rose?
(a) It makes him cringe.
(b) It excites him.
(c) It makes him uneasy.
(d) It annoys him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Old Lady pleased by Rose?

2. How does Rose see that she is fortunate regarding the two men to which she has been married?

3. Where do Johnny and Rose first meet?

4. What is George's response to Phil in college when Phil tells him it was embarrassing meeting with the dean and having to explain why your brother is not doing well in school?

5. How does George surprise Phil?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rose like about George?

2. What is significant about the cattle drive in the first section (Chapters I-III)?

3. How does Phil's behavior in college affect George?

4. To what does the narrator compare the cattle drive?

5. How are Phil and George different from those around them?

6. What bothers George about Phil?

7. What makes both George and Rose reluctant to come home to the ranch?

8. How does Phil get Rose's goat regarding music?

9. How does George act in a way that surprises Phil, at the end of Chapter VI?

10. How does the narrator describe the town of Beech in Chapter I?

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