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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 is Slip's brother's name?
(a) Felix.
(b) Fred.
(c) Foster.
(d) Ford.

2. Faith has just moved from where?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Texas.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. What is Faith's husband's name?
(a) Willis.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Walt.
(d) Wade.

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

5. Merit's father dies of what the day after calling Merit?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A blood clot.
(c) Car accident injuries.
(d) A stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eric likes Merit to wear her hair how?

2. Faith has twin babies named Beau and what?

3. Kari hid what in her luggage?

4. What is causing tension between Audrey and her husband?

5. When Audrey hosts the book club, the girls plan to discuss a book about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Audrey's unique gift that is discussed in this section.

2. How does the book club come by its name?

3. In this section, Kari adopts her niece's baby girl. What are your views of adoption, in general?

4. How do you think that Merit should handle Eric's abuse?

5. What is Merit's relationship to her father?

6. Describe what the five friends are doing, as the book opens.

7. Friendship is set up as the main theme of the novel, in the prologue. What do you think are two qualities that make a good friend and why?

8. What affect does Merit's father's death have on Eric and what does that say about Eric's character?

9. Do you think that it was right for Fred to enlist to go to Vietnam?

10. What secrets is Faith hiding from the others?

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