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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. What does Jace's old friend tell Margot that Jace still does every year?

2. What does Krissy want to tell Dave in Chapter Twenty-Five?

3. Where does Margot think Jace might live now?

4. Where does Jace ask Margot to meet him to talk?

5. Where did Polly Limon once live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Margot ask Pete to do while she is in Chicago for a few days?

2. Why does Jace write to Krissy in Part IV?

3. What does Pete tell Margot about Jace Jacobs before she goes to interview him?

4. Why does Margot want to find Jace Jacobs so badly?

5. When does Jace realize for the first time that Krissy thinks he killed January?

6. What does Peter say to Margot in Chapter Twenty-Three that makes her really angry?

7. Why does Krissy think Jace killed January?

8. Why does Jace tell Margot he still brings flowers to January's grave every year?

9. How does Krissy adjust to married life in Part III?

10. In Chapter Twenty-Three, how does Margot's face get cut?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Krissy always feel as if she, as January's mother, was always under greater scrutiny and suspicion as a potential suspect than Billy, as the father, was? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why do the police fixate on the fact that January participated in dancing competitions, and specifically on her costumes, early in her murder investigation? How does Krissy feel about this turn in the investigation, and why? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Flowers chose to write this novel partially as flashbacks focusing on different characters' perspectives in between the present-day sections that focus on main character Margot's experiences? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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