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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 is Eve doing when Benny asks her to put down a knife?
(a) talking about Simon
(b) playing mumblypeg
(c) talking about suicide
(d) cutting bread

2. What advice does Nan give Benny when she learns Jack is coming to visit her?
(a) how to be coy
(b) what to wear
(c) where to take him
(d) what to say

3. What does Eve suggest Benny tell Mrs. Healy about why they are in the hotel?
(a) that she is taking a survey
(b) that she is looking for a gift
(c) that she is looking for school things
(d) that she is waiting for her mother

4. What does Eve tell Benny that she does not believe?
(a) that Simon wants to marry her
(b) that Sean wants to marry Eve
(c) that Sean wants to marry Benny
(d) that her father wants her to marry

5. Why does Eve introduce herself to Benny in the reading room?
(a) she wants to hurt Benny's feelings
(b) she doesn't want Aidan to know Benny is her friend
(c) she is trying to make Benny smile
(d) Benny has been avoiding everyone, including Eve

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lilly think about Aidan's parents?

2. What does Benny have trouble finding out about?

3. Who does Eve meet at Westlands she had known nothing about?

4. What is Benny hoping for from her parents?

5. What is Benny's father's business?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first pangs of Jealousy Benny feels with Nan and Eve.

2. What is Nan's comment when Benny cannot stay for Frank's funeral and has to take the bus back home?

3. Describe the meeting of Jack, Benny, and Nan at the hospital.

4. How does Benny show her innocence when Jack invites her to a Dutch party?

5. Explain Kit Hegarty's fear about her only son.

6. Explain the invention of Eve and Benny they use to sort out their problems.

7. Explain why Brian wants Nan to study downstairs with her brothers.

8. What bothers Benny at the party and dance when she wears the dress Clodagh made for her?

9. What is the tragedy at the end of Chapter 3?

10. Detail what portends a future problem in the novel.

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