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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 does Lottie take with her when she and Betty leave Trudy's house?
(a) Fashion magazines.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Recipes.
(d) The meal they brought.

2. What is the main course of the dinner that Lottie and Betty take to the new family in town?
(a) Fried Chicken.
(b) Ham.
(c) Meat Loaf.
(d) Roast Beef.

3. Charles attributes Lottie's family's hardships to _____________________.
(a) Floods.
(b) Lack of education.
(c) Her father being a lazy alcoholic.
(d) The bad economy.

4. What does Charles not allow Lottie to buy?
(a) Fishhooks.
(b) Fresh flowers.
(c) Tablecloths.
(d) Television.

5. Sade's husband has an affair after ___________________.
(a) His cancer scare.
(b) Sade goes through menopause.
(c) He loses his job.
(d) His midlife crisis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lottie gives advice to Amanda on ______________________ during the Depression.

2. What happens to Sade after her husband's murder?

3. Who is Sade's husband?

4. What is the name of the local general store?

5. How can Lottie best be described?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author use punctuation to indicate the speakers in the story?

2. In whose voice is the Introduction written and what is the message?

3. Why is no serious investigation ever launched to determine Roy's murderer?

4. What illness does Betty contract as a child and what is the cause of it?

5. Describe how Charles and Lottie are so different from each other.

6. Who does Lottie determine has killed Roy and why does she choose to keep quiet about it?

7. How does the author show Lottie's true character, especially in the circumstances regarding Trudy?

8. What is Lottie's recurrent romantic fantasy and how does her real life differ from the dream?

9. Why does Lottie take back the meal she had brought for Trudy and her children?

10. Why is Trudy raising her children on her own?

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