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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stephen draw a picture of Margaret in chapter 5?

2. What is the first room Margaret shows Wanda in chapter 2?

3. What did Peter tell Wanda he needed to do with his life that led to their separation, as Wanda explains it in chapter 2?

4. Who is weeping in the prologue?

5. What does the patient worry about having forgotten to do before visiting the doctor that day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who does Wanda see on the street in front of a vintage record store? What happens after she sees this person?

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

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

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

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

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

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