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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Eighties, January 1987, Audrey, and February 1987, Slip.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Merit's husband is a what?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Professor.
(c) Artist.
(d) Doctor.

2. How is Audrey is spending her birthday?
(a) At a party she planned herself.
(b) At a circus.
(c) Alone.
(d) Her friends throw a surprise party.

3. Which of the following is not one of the things the friends are doing, as the novel opens?
(a) Driving.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Daydreaming.
(d) Sleeping.

4. What are the Angry Housewives celebrating at Audrey's family's beach house?
(a) Ten years of the book club.
(b) Twelve years of the book club.
(c) Sixteen years of the book club.
(d) Twenty Years of the book club.

5. Slip decides to join Fred for a small part of his march where?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slip feels betrayed by whom, after learning about Faith and her mother?

2. Faith writes a letter to her mother talking about how her daughter is doing a school project on what?

3. Later, after Audrey sneaks into Slip's yard in the dark, what does she build, intended as a gesture of peace?

4. Merit's father dies of what the day after calling Merit?

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

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