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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it in Chapter 5?

2. What was the name of Jeanette's grandmother's housekeeper?

3. How old is Fix in Chapter 7?

4. In Chapter 8, how long after Teresa's retirement party does she go to Switzerland?

5. When Holly sees her mother at the Lucerne airport in Chapter 8, how many years does she think it has been since she last saw her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Fix, Caroline, and Franny go to Teresa's house on Fix's birthday?

2. How did Fix and Marjorie get their house in Santa Monica?

3. Did Teresa date or marry after her divorce from Bert?

4. In Chapter 7, why does Fix say that Leo's wife is the unsung hero in the relationship between him and Franny?

5. In Chapter 6, what is Caroline doing?

6. How did Holly end up living in Switzerland?

7. What children do Caroline and Franny have?

8. What does Holly do at the airport in Lucerne while she waits for her mother's flight to come from Paris?

9. In Chapter 8, what are Teresa's reasons for retiring?

10. In Chapter 5, how does Fode know that Albie is Jeannette's brother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 1, the author uses imagery, rather than description, to create her characters and the world they live in. How is imagery used in Chapter 1 to develop characters, events, and the setting?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the years, the Keating and Cousins families have bonded and in some ways they are like an extended family. How has the divorce bonded the two families together, and in what ways are they one big extended family as the years pass?

Essay Topic 3

The mood in the novel shifts as different stories are told. How does the author create mood in the novel and how does mood change from chapter to chapter? Does the book have an overall mood?

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