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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. Audrey wonders why her husband thinks she should do what?
(a) Gain weight.
(b) Lose weight.
(c) Get a job.
(d) Dress differently.

2. Who enters the room and makes a mistake about the relationship between the ladies?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A salesman.

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

4. During the second book club meeting, Merit begins having what?
(a) Contractions.
(b) Chest pains.
(c) A panic attack.
(d) Headaches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the person who enters the room mistakenly think the ladies know each other?

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

3. In what location does the novel open?

4. Who is the first to flash the visiting woman after the acorn incident?

5. Slip takes some lemonade, the book she is supposed to have finished already for the club meeting, and joins her daughter in what?

(see the answer key)

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