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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is primary or residual clay?
(a) Clay that makes porcelain.
(b) Clay that is used first.
(c) Clay that is in its purest form.
(d) Clay that has never been moved from its origin.

2. What does the waitress at the coffee shop in chapter 1 suggest she would do if she learned she had a short time to live?
(a) Do something adventurous.
(b) Do something dangerous.
(c) Do something that scares her.
(d) Do something expensive.

3. Where does Margaret tell Wanda most of the collectibles in her house came from in chapter 3?
(a) Her mother's family.
(b) Her own searches of antique stores.
(c) Her father's antique store.
(d) Her father's family.

4. What does Margaret have a strong impulse to call the valet at the Hotel Orleans?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Watson.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Sherlock.

5. What does Cassandra tell Margaret she looks like in chapter 10?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A homeless woman.
(c) A Bingo player.
(d) A tourist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does a waitress have that Margaret notices in chapter 1?

2. Who is weeping in the prologue?

3. How many columns of Hughes does Margaret find in the phone book, suggesting the trouble Gus McPherson had finding her number?

4. What picture does Wanda put into her backpack in chapter 3?

5. What item does the author suggest you might pick up off a desk in the prologue?

(see the answer key)

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