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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 part of Lydia is cut when her beer glass shatters?
(a) Her feet.
(b) Her legs.
(c) Her arms.
(d) Her hands.

2. Where does Lydia work?
(a) At an elementary school.
(b) At a medical clinic.
(c) At a tailor's shop.
(d) At a grocery store.

3. Which of the following characters has a seizure in the hospital, due to stress?
(a) Mam Agnes.
(b) Silas.
(c) Mikey.
(d) Lydia.

4. Where was Silas being held during Du Boise's encounter with Lydia?
(a) In a padded chamber.
(b) In a state penitentiary.
(c) In a police van.
(d) In a holding cell.

5. How does Alec react to his wife's request to discuss the family?
(a) He is relieved.
(b) He is apathetic
(c) He is confused.
(d) He is angered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lydia hide her diary?

2. Where did Kate's lover, Marguerite, used to live before returning to Kate's home?

3. As a child, what did Mikey want to be when he grew up?

4. Which of the following characters is NOT one that Grace wants to talk about with Alec when she rouses him from sleep?

5. How does Mikey's sister react when he secretly phones her to catch up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mikey's reaction to reading that he is the product of a rape in his mother's diary?

2. What family arrives at Lydia's hospital bedside, and how do they get there?

3. How does Mikey feel about reading his mother's diary?

4. How does Mikey treat the small bird that flies in through his kitchen window?

5. Why do Kate Jessup and Julian Solomon come to stay at the Ali household?

6. Why does Silas follow Du Boise to the cafe?

7. What is the truth behind Mikey's parentage?

8. What memories does Silas have of his father, and his father dying?

9. What happened at a dinner party, which outraged Lydia so much that she never wanted Kate near Mikey again?

10. When Silas returns from the hospital, where he attempted to pick up Lydia, what fears is he suddenly seized with?

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