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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Peter tell Wanda he needed to do with his life that led to their separation, as Wanda explains it in chapter 2?

2. What is Creative Visualization?

3. What does the patient worry about having forgotten to do before visiting the doctor that day?

4. What does Wanda think of in chapter 16 as the paramedics load her into the ambulance?

5. How many columns of Hughes does Margaret find in the phone book, suggesting the trouble Gus McPherson had finding her number?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Daniel Hughes killed? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of his death?

2. Why do Margaret and Wanda begin breaking plates in chapter 13? What is the purpose?

3. What happened to Wanda's parents that caused her to live with her aunt and uncle?

4. Who does Margaret take to the opening night of Wanda's play? What does Margaret give to Wanda after the play is over?

5. What discussions does Margaret have with her doctor in chapter 10? What is the result of these discussions?

6. Why does Margaret insist on allow Wanda to use her car? Why does Wanda hesitate?

7. What does Margaret begin seeing in chapter 8? What is this a symptom of?

8. What brought Wanda to Seattle? Why?

9. Who is the first respondent to Margaret's ad for a roommate? Why does Margaret like this first respondent?

10. What was life like for Wanda when she lived with the Schultz family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the first mosaic Wanda makes with the shards from Margaret's china collection? What is the significance of this piece? What notoriety does she receive from her work? What idea does Troy have in regards to Wanda's art that will change the house in which Margaret lives? What mosaic does Barbara Cohen hire Wanda to make? Who appears in the piece? Whose kitchen does the piece resemble? What does it mean to Wanda? To Margaret?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Stephen? How does Margaret feel about him? Why did their relationship end? What was the cause? What role does Stephen play in Margaret's life now? What is Margaret's reaction when the doctor wants to call Stephen upon learning of Margaret's brain tumor? Why does Stephen's new wife call Margaret later in the novel? What does she want? What does she threaten to tell Stephen? How does Margaret react to the threat? What does Stephen say to Margaret after this threat is made good?

Essay Topic 3

What happened to Margaret's mother? When did she die? Why does Margaret begin to see her mother? What role did her mother play in Margaret's life when she was a child? Now, as Margaret is an adult? What does it say about Margaret's health that she is seeing dead people? What does it say about her state of mind? Why does Margaret see her mother? Why does she not see her father or others who have died in her life?

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