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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 Thomas not like to talk about?
(a) Books.
(b) Plants.
(c) Music.
(d) Movies.

2. Who calls the narrator in the first chapter?
(a) Pop.
(b) Agathe.
(c) Irena.
(d) Helene.

3. Who calls the narrator from a payphone?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her uncle.

4. What does Chris like?
(a) Chamber music.
(b) Computer science.
(c) Comic books.
(d) Figure skating.

5. Who is the narrator's boss?
(a) Rick Gold.
(b) Ronny Black.
(c) Richard Brown.
(d) Ross Silver.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Helene die?

2. Who is Peggy?

3. Who is crying in the first chapter?

4. Who inherits property from the departed?

5. Where does Ross send Marie for an operation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marie want Agathe to do for the boys?

2. What happens when Marie invites Thomas to her place for a nightcap?

3. What happens at Helene's wake?

4. What does Thomas say about books?

5. What is Marie like as a child?

6. What does Agathe tell the boys about stars?

7. What job does Ross offer to Marie?

8. What does Marie think of Thomas at first?

9. Who wants to be a spy when they are a child?

10. Where does Marie take Thomas for dinner?

(see the answer keys)

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