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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 to the Summers house after Ruby's death?
(a) Zorrie moves in.
(b) A deep silence descends.
(c) Opal comes back to live there.
(d) It is sold.

2. What does Zorrie start doing regularly in Part IV?
(a) Taking dinner to Noah's and eating with him.
(b) Visiting Opal.
(c) Adopting dogs.
(d) Singing.

3. Why does Noah tell Zorrie Virgil kept going to church, even though he did not think much of it in his later years?
(a) To please Noah.
(b) To please Opal.
(c) To please Ruby.
(d) To please Zorrie.

4. Who does Zorrie go to visit for the first time in Part III?
(a) Henry.
(b) Opal.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Joan.

5. Why does Zorrie have to slaughter her pigs?
(a) She needs them for food in the famine.
(b) They become aggressive.
(c) They are too expensive.
(d) Swine virus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Virgil's favorite books?

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

3. What did Harold once say when Zorrie spilled something on their table in their early years of marriage?

4. What does Virgil's death make Zorrie think of as she walks home from the Summers house?

5. Who starts trying to date Zorrie in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruby say to Zorrie about her visit to Opal in Part IV?

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

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

4. In Part III, what does it break Zorrie's heart to be forced to do on her farm?

5. What does Zorrie do regularly that Ruby and Noah think helps Virgil?

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

7. What is one reason that Zorrie realizes she might not have been interested in her suitor in Part III?

8. What happens between Oats and Virgil in Part III?

9. Why does Zorrie consider classes for Oats?

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

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