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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 does James do for a living?

2. In Chapter 5, where does Hannah notice that her father has a hole in his sock?

3. When do the police find Lydia?

4. How many minutes is it from James and Marilyn's house to the bank and grocery store?

5. In 1966, what did school lunches cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the realtor tell Marilyn and James when they first moved to Middlewood?

2. How did Marilyn get rid of her mother's things?

3. Where did Marilyn go at the end of Chapter 4 and what did she plan to do?

4. Why did James insist on a closed casket?

5. Who was Tom Lawson, and what did Marilyn ask him at one of James' college Christmas parties?

6. What did everyone try to do after Marilyn returned the summer she disappeared, and how did the disappearance affect the family?

7. What did Nath become obsessed with while his mother was gone?

8. What does Hannah think Lydia would have seen on her last night as she steps out into the night?

9. What photographs did Marilyn find when she cleaned out her mother's house after Doris' death?

10. How does Hannah feel about Lydia leaving and how might she have felt if she knew about her mother's disappearance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lydia purposefully pursued Jack. Why did Lydia pursue Jack and how did he help her cope with some of the issues she was facing?

Essay Topic 2

James and Marilyn marry. What were each of them looking for and why did their desires put a stress on the marriage?

Essay Topic 3

Lydia's parents had no idea what Lydia's life was really like. What did Marilyn and James imagine that Lydia's life was like and why was it so different from they envisioned?

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