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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: 1968-1970, June 1968, Merit, and July 1968, Slip.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the ladies react when someone mistakes the relationship between them?
(a) They find it sad.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They find it funny.
(d) They don't notice the error.

2. Merit's last name is what?
(a) Indleson.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Iverson.
(d) Allison.

3. Slip's daughter goes by what name?
(a) Flaherty.
(b) Flannery.
(c) Flipper.
(d) Flossy.

4. As the novel opens, one of the friends is doing what?
(a) A puzzle.
(b) Baking a cake.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Eating.

5. Kari's husband died in his sleep at what age?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Forty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slip is trying to talk her husband into babysitting so she can go to a what?

2. Merit's husband is a what?

3. Slip is miserable from the heat, and upset over the resent death of Martin Luther King Jr. and whom?

4. During the opening scene, the ladies begin to do what?

5. When Faith finally puts the babies to bed, she settles on the couch to read a book only moments before what happens?

(see the answer key)

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