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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. Who is the first person Laura tries to call in Chapter 1?

2. When does Miriam remember that Carla Myerson visited her nephew with a bottle of wine?

3. What type of sofa does Laura have in her living room?

4. How many hours after the police picked up Laura was she allowed to go home?

5. In Chapter 10, where was Daniel going to go to boarding school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carla tell the police about her nephew and his family?

2. Why does Miriam decide to check on a young man whose boat has been moored two days longer than he is entitled to be?

3. What is Irene's favrorite reading spot and why?

4. What happened the day Angela's body was found?

5. In Chapter 1, what is Laura struggling with?

6. What does Theo tell the police that he saw Saturday morning?

7. What does Carla remember about Ben's third birthday?

8. What does Miriam have in the wooden box where she keeps her trinkets?

9. What did Miriam find when she check on a young man on a boat?

10. Why does Laura struggle to match her outward behavior to her emotional state?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Miriam believes that Theo stole her story for one of his books. Why does Miriam believe that Theo stole her story? How has her belief that he stole her ideas caused a confrontational relationship between them?

Essay Topic 2

Angela is a single mother with a low-paying job and little support. How does Angela try to cope with her problems and her son? Does she use alcohol as a crutch? Is she an alcoholic?

Essay Topic 3

Miriam and a friend were abducted when they were teenagers. What happened to Miriam’s friend, Lorraine, when they were abducted? Why does Miriam blame herself for her friend’s death?

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