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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: 1968-1970, June 1968, Merit, and July 1968, Slip.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faith has just moved from where?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Texas.

2. Which of the following is not one of the things the friends are doing, as the novel opens?
(a) Daydreaming.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Driving.

3. Who is the first to flash the visiting woman after the acorn incident?
(a) Faith.
(b) Audrey.
(c) Flan.
(d) Slip.

4. During the opening scene, the ladies begin to do what?
(a) Reminisce about their past.
(b) Cry.
(c) Argue.
(d) Sing and dance.

5. Kari's husband died in his sleep at what age?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Forty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Merit's husband is a what?

2. In what location does the novel open?

3. Someone mentions what thing during the opening scene?

4. Slip is miserable from the heat, and upset over the resent death of Martin Luther King Jr. and whom?

5. During the second book club meeting, Merit begins having what?

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