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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. In Chapter 5, where does Hannah hide while her parents argue after the police leave?

2. By July, how long had Marilyn been gone?

3. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 5, where does Hannah notice that her father has a hole in his sock?

5. What does Marilyn do in Chapter 5 after James leaves for his ten o'clock class?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways do Marilyn and Lydia look alike?

2. What photographs did Marilyn find when she cleaned out her mother's house after Doris' death?

3. How does Jack treat girls?

4. What did James realize after Marilyn disappeared?

5. How did Marilyn get rid of her mother's things?

6. In Chapter 1, what does Marilyn find when she goes to Lydia's room?

7. Why don't Nath's classmates see him again after the funeral?

8. Why did James insist on a closed casket?

9. Why didn't the principal at Marilyn's high school want her to take shop?

10. Who was Tom Lawson, and what did Marilyn ask him at one of James' college Christmas parties?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lydia became the center of the Lee family. In what ways did the Lee family revolve around Lydia and how did she feel about being the center of the family?

Essay Topic 2

Marilyn did not approve of her mother's choices in life. Why didn't Marilyn approve of her mother's choices in life and how did her disapproval of those choices affect the choices that Marilyn made in her own life?

Essay Topic 3

James and Marilyn had unfulfilled dreams. How did they try to foist their dreams on their children and how did that affect their family dynamics?

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