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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wanda think of in chapter 16 as the paramedics load her into the ambulance?
(a) Colored eggs on Easter.
(b) Troy's colorful wardrobe.
(c) Easter candy.
(d) Colored chicks in the petshop windows at Easter.

2. What is Creative Visualization?
(a) A book of positive reinforcements.
(b) A New Age philosophy.
(c) A play.
(d) A type of yoga.

3. Why does Wanda become angry with Troy in chapter 16?
(a) He intereferes in her search for Peter.
(b) He exposes her real identity.
(c) He refuses to help her find Peter.
(d) He tries to play along with her charade.

4. What is one of the ways Margaret feels in chapter 6 that Wanda has brought new life to her house?
(a) There are more people around.
(b) The phone rings now.
(c) She plays music a lot.
(d) She talks a lot.

5. Whose bedroom does Wanda now occupy in Margaret's house?
(a) The maid's room.
(b) The nanny's room.
(c) Margaret's childhood bedroom.
(d) Daniel's room.

6. What two items does Wanda repair for Margaret while in her house for an interview to be her roommate?
(a) A plate and tea cup.
(b) A leaky water pipe and a tea cup.
(c) A broken doorknob and a leaky water pipe.
(d) A broken figurine and a tea cup.

7. 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.

8. Who is diagnosed with a dire health ailment in chapter 1?
(a) Irma Kominsky.
(b) M.J.Striker.
(c) Wanda Schultz.
(d) Margaret Hughes.

9. What point of view is used in the prologue of the novel?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Limited omniscient.
(d) Second person.

10. 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 family.
(d) Her father's antique store.

11. Who does Margaret see alongside her mother in chapter 8?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandparents.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Daniel.

12. What does Margaret learn about Wanda on the night of the play's opening?
(a) Wanda is leaving Seattle.
(b) Wanda is sick.
(c) Wanda has a new boyfriend.
(d) Wanda is an orphan.

13. Why did Wanda work hard to never break a dish in the Schultz household?
(a) She did not want to be abandoned again.
(b) She thought a broken dish would cause her father to be injured.
(c) She thought the chips and cracks on the dishes were her fault.
(d) She did not want to get in trouble.

14. How many children do the Schultzes have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

15. Why does Margaret refuse to have chemotherapy or radiation treatments for her illness?
(a) She is afraid.
(b) She does believe she is sick.
(c) She is suicidal.
(d) She has things to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Susan bring with her in chapter 15 when she comes to interview to be Margaret and Wanda's new roommate?

2. What is the ritual that Margaret has grown used to Wanda conducting each morning?

3. In what city did Wanda and her parents live?

4. Who tells Margaret she should not allow Wanda to borrow her car in chapter 8?

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

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