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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michael do for what seems no apparent reason while at the Yankee Doodle Tap Room?
(a) He gets so drunk he passes out.
(b) He throws the contents of his beer glass in Judge Gerald Kirkland's face.
(c) He tears up his membership card and throws it at the club president.
(d) He gets up and sings "Yankee Doodle."

2. Where does Corrine learn her husband has been spending time?
(a) Wolf's Head Inn.
(b) The Country Club.
(c) Wolf's Head Lodge.
(d) Scroon Lake.

3. What is written about Patrick as a baby?
(a) Patrick was the largest baby.
(b) Patrick was a lively child who got into things.
(c) Patrick was a quiet and shy baby.
(d) Patrick was a demanding baby.

4. What is significant about the dress Marianne wears to the Valentine's Dance?
(a) Marianne sewed the dress herself.
(b) Her mother suprised her with the dress.
(c) Marianne and her mother shopped for it together.
(d) The dress is an altered dress that had once been Corrine's.

5. Which of the Mulvaney children is said to be the most natural Christian?
(a) Judd.
(b) Patrick.
(c) Marianne.
(d) Mike.

6. What is the name of the person Marianne is living with?
(a) Ethel Hausmann.
(b) Katrina Mulvaney.
(c) Ethel Mulaney.
(d) Grandma Hausmann.

7. What does Patrick need Judd to do to help him follow through with his plan?
(a) Create an alibi for him.
(b) Get a pistol from the nightstand beside their father's bed.
(c) Get some fertilizer from the barn.
(d) Get some guns from their gun cabinet.

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

9. When do Corrine and Michael first meet?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1955.

10. What does Judd think bothers his brother, Mike, the most about their sister's rape?
(a) Judd thinks Mike is upset because no one talks about it.
(b) Judd thinks Mike is upset because he didn't protect her.
(c) Judd thinks Mike is taking the rape as a slap in his face.
(d) Judd thinks Mike is upset because everyone is making such a big thing out of it.

11. What does the ringing of the cowbell signify to the Mulvaney family?
(a) Ringing the cowbell signals a phone call for someone who isn't in the house.
(b) Ringing the cowbell signals dinner.
(c) Ringing the cowbell signals an outing.
(d) Ringing the cowbell means the parents want to talk to the children.

12. In the chapter titled "Reverse Prayer", what does Patrick say to Judd when he calls?
(a) He asks to speak to their mother.
(b) He asks for Judd's help.
(c) He confides in Judd that he hates college.
(d) He asks what happened to their father at the country club.

13. How does Judd find out what really happened to Marianne?
(a) Judd asks Marianne and she tells him.
(b) His mother tells him.
(c) He finally corners Mike and Mike tells him.
(d) He finally asks his father and he tells him.

14. When Corrine and Judd visit Marianne what does the Co-Op Director, Abelove, say that upsets Corrine?
(a) Abelove says Marianne is a very poor student.
(b) Abelove says he wants Marianne to quit college and work more at the Co-Op.
(c) Abelove says he wants to marry Marianne.
(d) Abelove says that all Marianne needs is faith in herself.

15. What does Corrine say leads her mother and her to safety in the snow storm?
(a) Twinkle lights.
(b) Flies.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) A light from Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter, "The Assault," why does Michael Mulvaney go to Mort Lundt's house?

2. The night Patrick is out with his friends, who does Patrick think he sees?

3. Where does Patrick go in September 1976?

4. Who starts calling Mike Jr. "Mule"?

5. What does Corrine find when she goes to pick up her husband after a late night call saying he couldn't drive home?

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