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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. Which of the following name is found in the public records in Chapter 10?
(a) Gitl Mandlestein.
(b) Dawna Stein.
(c) Dawna Mandlestein.
(d) Genevieve Mandlestein.

2. Who goes to the nursing home in Chapter 2?
(a) Becca.
(b) Eve and Becca.
(c) Shana, Sylvia and Becca.
(d) Sylvia and Becca.

3. Where does Becca fall asleep in Chapter 6?
(a) At her desk at work.
(b) In her car.
(c) At the kitchen table.
(d) In the bathtub.

4. What point does Becca specifically remember about Gemma's story in Chapter 6?
(a) That the curse would affect anyone that bore her name.
(b) That the curse will only affect women.
(c) That the curse is unbreakable.
(d) That the curse would end during the harvest moon.

5. Who is Stan?
(a) The intern.
(b) Becca's editor.
(c) An investor.
(d) Becca's assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Arnie provide Becca in Chapter 8?

2. What does Becca do in the middle of the night in Chapter 6?

3. What does Gemma's box, found by the family, contain?

4. What is Howie's profession?

5. Who is Mike?

Short Essay Questions

1. What name does Becca have for her car in Chapter 2? Why has she named her car?

2. As she continues the story in Chapter 6, how long does Gemma say the cursed people in the story slept for?

3. What does Becca's father remind her of when she says she is going to work in Chapter 8?

4. In Chapter 6, why does Becca suppose Gemma was so caught up with the part of her story which said the curse would affect Briar Rose's whole family?

5. In Chapter 7, what does Gemma tell Becca she will probably lose interest in after she starts school?

6. After Sylvia and Shana have left in Chapter 2, what does Gemma tell Becca, and make Becca promise to do?

7. What does Sylvia press Gemma for a definition for in Chapter 9?

8. How does Becca explain having never seen Gemma's carved box before in Chapter 8?

9. What are Shana and Sylvia begging their grandmother for at the beginning of the novel?

10. In Chapter 4, what do we learn about Gemma's past?

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