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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 happens when Judd asks Patrick what happened to Marianne?
(a) Patrick gets angry and tells Judd to mind his own business.
(b) Patrick is visibly upset and storms away in anger.
(c) Patrick refuses to discuss it.
(d) Patrick admits she's had some trouble, but that she is okay now.

2. What does the woodcut make Patrick wonder about himself?
(a) Would he ever be able to take a hunting trip to Canada?
(b) Was he no different than any other human being?
(c) Was he coded, like other males, to hunt and kill?
(d) Why did the man in the picture look like him?

3. What does Judd say about the newspaper where he is editor?
(a) It is the best newspaper in the county.
(b) It is a good, decent, truth-telling paper.
(c) It is a great place to get his start before moving on to a larger newspaper.
(d) It is the only newspaper in town.

4. What does Judd notice about his father and the people around them at Patrick's graduation?
(a) That his father looks so out of place among his friends.
(b) That his father doesn't want to talk to anyone.
(c) That the man who was once the center of attention was now treated like an invisible man.
(d) That the people treated his father with respect.

5. What does Corrine think Michael is doing when he talks to an attorney?
(a) Preparing a defense for what he plans to do.
(b) Planning a cival lawsuit against Zachary Lundt.
(c) Getting a will drawn up.
(d) Planning to divorce her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members of the Mulvaney family are there at the beginning of the story?

2. What does Mrs. Lundt do from another part of the house?

3. What does Marianne thank God for after the rape?

4. What does Judd say about setting down the truth of this story?

5. What does Mike Jr. do after a fight with his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Michael's reaction when Mort Lundt explains that he grounded his son for six weeks as though what his son did was bad, but not criminal?

2. What upsets Corrine when she finds a matchbook in Michael's pants pocket from the Wolf's Head Inn?

3. Why is Michael Sr. obsessed with finding the right lawyer for a lawsuit, and what is he actually suing for?

4. What is Judd's motivation to agree when his brother, Patrick, calls and confirms he is still planning to "extract justice" by possibly killing Zach Lundt?

5. What is happening to Michael Sr. when he visits the bar in the Mt. Ephraim Country Club that causes him to throw the contents of his glass of beer into Judge Gerald Kirkland's face?

6. What role does Marianne's brother Patrick play the night of the Valentine's Dance that haunts him years after that night?

7. What questions are triggered about himself as Patrick thinks about the drawing, "The Huntsman?"

8. What does the title of the story imply in comparison to the title of the first chapter, "Storybook House?"

9. What is the family code discussed in the chapter by the same title, and in what way does Marianne break the code?

10. When entering a debate about the war in Vietnam, what is it that Corrine compares that war to, and why?

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