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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 secret did Maya confide to Georgia?
(a) Maya had an abortion.
(b) Maya never went to college.
(c) Maya had filed for divorce.
(d) Maya got a new job.

2. What does the man in #147 take Georgia to see?
(a) A garden.
(b) A museum.
(c) A concert.
(d) The beach.

3. How did Austin die?
(a) Terminal illness.
(b) A gunshot wound.
(c) In a boating accident.
(d) In a car accident.

4. Who is the friend who Anita visits in her hometown?
(a) Margot.
(b) Mavis.
(c) Maria.
(d) Marlene.

5. What does Georgia decide she would do if she had her life to live over?
(a) She would do the same things.
(b) She would not have married.
(c) She would have had children.
(d) She would have moved to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT something Anita wants in her life?

2. Who is Matilda's mother?

3. With whom does Joan plan to have an affair?

4. Why does Anita have to have surgery?

5. What do Anita and the woman in #164 have in common?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karin think that her ex-husband, Brent, has facilitated Austin's departure from his church?

2. What was the source of the falling out between Georgia and Maya, causing them to never speak again?

3. What does Jeanine admit to Averill about her personal life?

4. How did Georgia meet Maya and Raymond as well as Hilda and Harvey? What secret does Georgia learn about the marriages of these two couples?

5. Give some examples of how the author uses the theme of escape in this story.

6. What is the symbolism of the red stained glass through which Joan views the world?

7. Who is Miles and what is his relationship with Georgia?

8. What kind of world does the boat at night represent for Averill, and how does she incorporate the captain into this world?

9. What does this story say about uneven love in relationships, especially in the case of Maya's husband, Raymond?

10. Who is Austin Cobbett and what is a woman named Karin helping him do as the story begins?

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