View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author suggest you do at the end of the prologue?
(a) Reassure Wanda that hope is coming.
(b) Wake Margaret up.
(c) Come back another time.
(d) Warn Irma of danger.

3. What does Margaret break while waiting for Wanda to return from the bathroom in chapter 2?
(a) A figurine.
(b) A window.
(c) A plate.
(d) A tea cup.

4. What item does a waitress have that Margaret notices in chapter 1?
(a) A toe ring.
(b) A tongue ring.
(c) A nose ring.
(d) A belly button ring.

5. What on the walls of the coffee shop makes Margaret think of an unpleasant movie she once saw?
(a) Beverage advertisments.
(b) Theater posters.
(c) Black and white photos.
(d) Movie posters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wanda think of in chapter 16 as the paramedics load her into the ambulance?

2. Why does Wanda become angry with Troy in chapter 16?

3. 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?

4. What point of view is used in the prologue of the novel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What discussions does Margaret have with her doctor in chapter 10? What is the result of these discussions?

2. Why does Margaret Hughes decide to get a roommate? Who does she need to consult first?

3. What happened to Wanda's parents that caused her to live with her aunt and uncle?

4. Why does Wanda interview the clerk at a second hand record store? Who does she pretend to be?

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

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

7. What was life like for Wanda when she lived with the Schultz family?

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

9. What brought Wanda to Seattle? Why?

10. What is significant about the day Margaret's mother died? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of her mother's death?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 896 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample