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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 does Zorrie tell Opal that Harold used to say she was as smart as?
(a) A priest.
(b) A fox.
(c) A school principal.
(d) A dolphin.

2. What does Zorrie's conversation with Noah about church make her wonder about herself?
(a) How her own attitudes towards church were changing.
(b) If Reverend Carter liked her or not.
(c) If she had read enough of the Bible to really understand it.
(d) Whether she would ever become a nun.

3. What does Opal cryptically tell Zorrie is "behind her face" in Part IV?
(a) Fear.
(b) A cave all her own.
(c) A smile.
(d) Sadness.

4. What does Noah do after Virgil dies?
(a) Goes fishing all day.
(b) Burns the trees in the field.
(c) Cooks for the funeral.
(d) Confines himself to his room for a while.

5. Who is Lester's wife?
(a) Maria.
(b) Jane.
(c) Emma.
(d) Joan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Opal tell Zorrie her doctors have told her?

2. What does Zorrie suddenly realize Noah thinks about her having visited Opal?

3. What does Zorrie invest in for her farm in the fifties?

4. What does Lester do with some of the profits from the great harvest?

5. Where does Opal say she would like to be buried?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Noah give Zorrie after Virgil's death?

2. What does Zorrie start doing with the Summers family that helps with her loneliness?

3. In Part III, why does Zorrie travel to Ottawa?

4. In Part IV, who does Hank ask to keep an eye on Noah, and why does he ask this?

5. What does Hank tell Zorrie about Opal and Noah in Part IV that shocks her?

6. What does Zorrie start doing for Noah regularly in Part IV?

7. What does Marie tell Zorrie that Janie had thought of Zorrie at the end of Janie's life?

8. How does Noah react to his father Virgil's death?

9. Who tries to woo Zorrie in Part III and how does it end up?

10. Who does Zorrie go to visit for the first time, and why?

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