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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. How does Claire purchase the items for dinner?
(a) James' credit card.
(b) A check.
(c) A debit card.
(d) Cash.

2. What name does Claire give her newborn daughter?
(a) Cecily.
(b) Ava.
(c) Kate.
(d) Emma.

3. Who interrupts Claire and Adam as they are talking?
(a) The waitress.
(b) A cell call from James.
(c) Three girls.
(d) Laura.

4. What is the prevalent theme in the first section of the novel?
(a) Loss.
(b) Greed.
(c) Love.
(d) War.

5. What does Claire call a period of two weeks when she had extreme mood swings in her parents home?
(a) The Great Terror.
(b) The Great Travesty.
(c) Kill James Campaign.
(d) Poor Pitiful Claire Campaign.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Claire feel knowing that most people probably knew about James' affair?

2. What does Claire find amazing about the night she meets Adam?

3. Why does Claire go to Helen's room after supper?

4. Why will Claire not sell her share of their flat to James?

5. Why does James not take Claire's call when she phones at his office?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Claire hesitant to call James?

2. What is especially gratifying to Claire about the dinner she shops for and prepares for her family?

3. How did Claire meet her husband, James?

4. Why does Claire feel so guilty after spending the evening with Laura and Adam?

5. What realities does Claire realize that she must face now?

6. How does Claire meet Adam?

7. How does Claire feel about her newborn daughter?

8. What is an important theme in the first section of the book?

9. What is The Great Terror?

10. How does the author show Claire's fragile state of mind regarding her marriage?

(see the answer keys)

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