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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. What were the religious beliefs of Wanda's father?
(a) He was Catholic.
(b) He was agnostic.
(c) He was an atheist.
(d) He was Lutheran.

2. What does Margaret show Wanda that was a piece of art Stephen once made in chapter 13?
(a) A mosaic on a wall.
(b) A drawing of a Madonna.
(c) A caricature on a wall.
(d) A painting of her.

3. Who was the only girl in the Schultz family named after?
(a) Barbara Bush.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) Elizabeth Taylor.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

4. What does Oscar Hauptmann tell Margaret caused the death of her mother?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Stroke.
(d) An explosion in the brain, an aneurysm.

5. What is the ritual that Margaret has grown used to Wanda conducting each morning?
(a) Wanda exercising.
(b) Wanda painting her nails.
(c) Wanda making breakfast.
(d) Wanda making coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the ways Margaret feels in chapter 6 that Wanda has brought new life to her house?

2. With what item does Wanda bring peace to the waring Schultz children?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Margaret take to the opening night of Wanda's play? What does Margaret give to Wanda after the play is over?

2. How is Daniel Hughes killed? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of his death?

3. What causes the decline of Stephen and Margaret's marriage?

4. Who is the first respondent to Margaret's ad for a roommate? Why does Margaret like this first respondent?

5. Why does Margaret insist on allow Wanda to use her car? Why does Wanda hesitate?

6. Why does Margaret go to the Hotel Orleans in chapter 10? Who does she meet there?

7. What brought Wanda to Seattle? Why?

8. Why do Margaret and Wanda begin breaking plates in chapter 13? What is the purpose?

9. Why does the author introduce a dream that both Wanda and Margaret are having in chapter 7?

10. What role does Stephen play in Margaret's life now that the two are divorced?

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