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

2. What is Becca's career?
(a) She is a writer.
(b) She is a social worker.
(c) She is a graphic designer.
(d) She is a teacher.

3. In Gemma's story, at what age will the heroine be when the curse comes to pass?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Thirteen.

4. For what word does Gemma refuse to tell her granddaughters the definition of in Chapter 9?
(a) Nazi.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Holocaust.
(d) Barbs.

5. What does Becca avoid upon arriving at work in Chapter 8?
(a) Running into an ex-boyfriend.
(b) Communication with the staff.
(c) Doing any work.
(d) Checking her emails.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name on the paper documenting the arrival of a refugee into America?

2. Who does the family believe the picture of the man found in the box is?

3. How does Gemma begin her story in Chapter 2?

4. What has Eve always thought to be Gemma's real name?

5. What is the name Becca has given to her worn out car?

Short Essay Questions

1. When she investigates her grandmother's newspaper clippings, what does Becca learn from Arnie at the Palladium Times in Oswego?

2. In Chapter 5, what frightens Becca's friend?

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

4. Where are Becca's work offices housed? What were Becca's first 'real' articles at the Advocate about?

5. Besides the document with an unknown name on it, what is inside the carved box which had belonged to Gemma?

6. What are the documents that Becca falls asleep going over in Chapter 6?

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. 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?

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

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