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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 show do Krissy and Billy and Jace end up on?

2. Who is Elliott's sister?

3. What does Krissy see at the bottom of the basement stairs in Chapter Eighteen?

4. What shocks Krissy in Jace's first letter to her?

5. What does Krissy remember first from the night of January's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Krissy reconnect with in Part IV from her past and how does this reconnection change her life?

3. In Chapter Twenty-Five, why does Krissy cut Dave out of hers and Billy's lives?

4. In Chapter Twenty-Five, what does Krissy tell Jodie that she has never told another soul?

5. Why does Pete tell Margot he understands what she is going through with Luke?

6. How does Krissy feel when the women from Wakarusa bring food to her house?

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

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

9. What does Margot repeatedly say to Luke when she is trying to get him to remember who she is?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Flowers treat the topic of infertility and its impact on families and marriages throughout this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Flowers describe Margot's feelings about reporting - her job - throughout the novel? How does reporting become a part of Margot's self-identity? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Flowers's exploration of the topics of guilt and regret throughout the novel.

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