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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 does Jack do when Benny touches his face?
(a) kisses her hand
(b) pushes her hair back
(c) laughs out loud
(d) pulls away from her

2. What is the close call Jack and Nan have in Knockglen?
(a) Mother Francis knocks on the door, but leaves
(b) Jack is seen getting gas for the car
(c) Eve arrives only moments after they leave
(d) Heather comes to the cottage but doesn't go in

3. How do John and Lilly react to Jack's news that he and Nan must marry?
(a) they are indifferent
(b) they are confused
(c) they are thrilled
(d) they are angry

4. Where does Nan tell her mother she is going while she is packing her bag?
(a) at Sheila's house in the country
(b) to London with Rosemary
(c) Eve's boardinghouse
(d) Benny's house in Knockglen

5. What does Nan say about Eve after she is coy about the outing?
(a) she says likes the way Eve keeps secrets
(b) she says would hate to have Eve as an enemy
(c) she says Eve plays too many games
(d) she says Eve never notices anything

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heather complain that she does not have?

2. What does Kit learn about her late husband and son?

3. Who shows up unexpectedly at Kit Hegarty's house?

4. What does Simon want from Eve?

5. Who does Lilly think her son Jack is inviting to lunch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the exchange between Jack and Benny the morning after Jack took Nan to a dance?

2. What is the resolution for Benny at the end of the novel?

3. What do Benny and Annabel learn about the lawyer?

4. What does Nan do when she is sure she is pregnant?

5. On their date at the restaurant, what romantic thing takes place?

6. What happens when Fonzie and Clodagh try to enter the bar at Healy Hotel?

7. What foils Nan's plans to tell Jack she is pregnant at Eve's cottage?

8. Why are Eve and Benny not happy with Nan's seeing Simon?

9. Thinking about Jack and Nan, how close does Benny come to the real truth?

10. What advice does Dr. Johnson give Annabel when Eddie dies and why does he give it?

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