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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Angry Housewives celebrating at Audrey's family's beach house?

2. Which child chose not to come home for the holidays?

3. Who gets an outlet for her acrobatic talents?

4. Where is Audrey when she runs into her neighbors?

5. Merit has how many daughters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the relationship between Eric and Merit come full-circle at Reni's college graduation?

2. Was the accident that killed Faith's mother Faith's fault?

3. How does Faith initially react to hearing that Beau is gay and that Shelby is a man?

4. Describe Fred and Slip's relationship in this section.

5. Do you think it was right for Audrey to let Grant join the Angry Housewives book club?

6. Does Mary Jo have the right attitude toward Kari and Julia?

7. What is Slip's attitude toward her brother Fred's transformation?

8. Describe the changes in Fred in this section of the book.

9. How do the book club ladies rally, when Audrey and Slip fight?

10. What is Audrey's attitude about her divorce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eric abuses Merit throughout the book. His abuse eventually results in a divorce and, ultimately, Merit hits him when they meet up again at their daughter's college graduation.

Part 1. Why was Eric abusive towards Merit?

Part 2. Why did Merit take Eric's abuse for as long as she did?

Part 3. Choose two conflicts between Merit and Eric and describe alternative ways that Eric and Merit could have resolved the conflict.

Essay Topic 2

Kari takes some heat when she adopts Julia because Julia is of mixed race. Using at least three hundred words, describe your thoughts about Julia's race and about race in general. For example, do you feel that any race is inferior to any other race? Why or why not? Also, how would you handle the harassment from others, if you were Julia or Kari?

Essay Topic 3

Foreshadowing is used a lot throughout the book. Write about one instance each for any three book club members where foreshadowing was used to give the reader a glimpse into that club member's future.

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