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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. Why does Ira scold Maggie?
(a) He is sick of her complaining to the waitress.
(b) He does not like that she flirts.
(c) He thinks she is being rude.
(d) He wants her to talk to him.

2. What does Serena demand?
(a) That everyone leave her house.
(b) That they leave the house.
(c) That she get some sympathy.
(d) That someone buy her food.

3. What is Serena now?
(a) A woman on the prowl.
(b) A bad friend.
(c) A widow.
(d) A spiteful woman.

4. What does Ira think of other people?
(a) No one cares about other people.
(b) Ira loves hanging around other people and learning about their lives.
(c) That they waste too much time on petty differences.
(d) That they know nothing of the human condition.

5. What does Serena ask of Ira and Maggie?
(a) That they sing.
(b) They kiss.
(c) For them to hold her hand.
(d) For some moral support.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Serena upset?

2. Who joins Maggie to sing?

3. What is sung at the funeral?

4. Who does Serena wish was at the funeral?

5. What does Maggie demand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Fiona ask for a divorce?

2. What is Serena dressed as?

3. What does Ira's dissatisfaction with life come from?

4. What does Maggie beg of Fiona?

5. Who does the couple encounter on the highway in Part 2 of the novel?

6. Where did Maggie work during high school?

7. What kind of person is Ira?

8. Why did Fiona want to visit in the first place?

9. What does Jesse reveal as his ex wife and daughter arrive?

10. What is the time frame of the novel?

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