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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hard Reckoning: On My Own.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Judd say of his parents' relationship before things changed?
(a) Michael and Corrine were romantic.
(b) Michael and Corrine were indifferent to each other.
(c) Michael and Corrine liked to play jokes on each other.
(d) Michael and Corrine fought a lot.

2. Where is Judd to pick up the guns after Patrick is finished with them?
(a) In a trash can by the high school.
(b) At an abandoned cemetery.
(c) Under some leaves by their church.
(d) In the woods behind their house.

3. What does Judd keep hearing himself say?
(a) "Find Patrick. Find Patrick. Find Patrick."
(b) "Be strong for Mom. She needs you."
(c) "Get out! Get out while you can."
(d) "Take care of Mom. Be sure Mom doesn't crack up."

4. Who is Birk?"
(a) Birk is a day worker at the Co-Op.
(b) Birk is Marianne's boyfriend.
(c) Abelove's assistant who disappeared.
(d) Abelove's real name is Birk.

5. What Charlotte Bronte words become a motto to Marianne?
(a) "Hard work never killed anyone."
(b) "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
(c) "A rose by any other name would smell so sweet."
(d) "Out of obscurity I came -- to obsurity I can easily return."

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Patrick use to explain what's happened to their father?

2. How is Michael Sr. greeted when he enters the Yankee Doodle Tap Room?

3. If it is not time at High Point Farm, what is it?

4. What duty of Birk's does Marianne take over that makes a huge difference at the Co-Op?

5. How old is Corrine in the story she tells about December 1938?

(see the answer key)

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