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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 request of the housemates' do Dana's sisters deny?
(a) Keeping Dana's CDs.
(b) Having a picture of Dana.
(c) Attending Dana's funeral.
(d) Visiting Dana's childhood home.

2. Who arrives at Jo's home in the evening?
(a) Her in-laws.
(b) Trick-or-Treaters.
(c) Her book group members.
(d) Her twin daughters.

3. What does Jo realize as the source of her vivid memories lately?
(a) Going to a funeral.
(b) Listening to old records.
(c) Looking at yearbooks.
(d) The mention of Eli's name.

4. How much time passes between Eli's visit to Jo's office until she hears from him again?
(a) A couple of hours.
(b) A month.
(c) One week.
(d) Three days.

5. What name did Jo go by in college?
(a) Felicia Stead.
(b) Allison Steadman.
(c) Felicity Sneed.
(d) Carolyn Falmouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dana's nationality?

2. Who is Jo's youngest daughter?

3. What did Dana witness Licia say to a man in a bar to stop him from flirting with her?

4. Why does Jo caution against Eli staying in the room while she takes care of the dog?

5. In what state do Jo and her husband live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Jo and Daniel's daughters and how are they different from each other?

2. What does Dana think Licia might be when she catches Licia in lies?

3. Why is marrying Daniel quite opposite from the life she had been living in the group house?

4. What does Jo say might account for her feeling off during dinner with Daniel?

5. How does the author use foreshadowing in the situation regarding the euthanasia of Eli's dog?

6. How do Jo and Daniel reconnect and then marry?

7. How well does Licia adapt to living in the group house?

8. What happens to the dynamics in the group house after Dana's death?

9. What is the first theory the police have regarding Dana's murder?

10. What was the nature of the relationship between Licia and Dana?

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