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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Wilma thinking about when Esme rushed into her workshop, all beaten and bloody?
(a) A new dress pattern.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Her garden.
(d) Chicken for dinner.

2. Who is Adan's mother?
(a) Penny.
(b) Esme.
(c) Wilma.
(d) Carla.

3. What is wrong with the bathrooms in the hospital?
(a) There are no doors on the stalls.
(b) There is no toilet paper there.
(c) There are no toilets.
(d) There is no running water.

4. What does Lala call her baby?
(a) Esme.
(b) Stella.
(c) Baby.
(d) Wilma.

5. What does Adan buy Lala when she is pregant even though they are very expensive?
(a) Cherries.
(b) Pineapples.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Diamonds.

6. What is the curse Wilma tells the police the Wilkinson women have?
(a) Having bad hearts.
(b) Bewitching men.
(c) Cooking so well.
(d) Falling into terrible murderous situations.

7. Who is really Lala's father?
(a) Carson.
(b) Adan.
(c) Riley.
(d) Tone.

8. What does Tone wear on a necklace?
(a) A dollar bill.
(b) A tooth of his own.
(c) A silver charm.
(d) A shark's tooth.

9. What problem was in Mira's and Peter's relationship when Peter died?
(a) Mira was having an affair.
(b) Peter was having an affair.
(c) Mira was sick.
(d) Peter was sick.

10. Why does Adan hide before he knows who has come to visit them in Chapter 6?
(a) He is too hungry to wait and talk to visitors before eating.
(b) He is hiding from the police.
(c) He has scars he is ashamed of.
(d) He does not want to see anyone besides Wilma.

11. Where does Mira live most of the year?
(a) Spain.
(b) Russia.
(c) America.
(d) England.

12. What kind of woman was Wilma in 1963?
(a) A woman who knew how to end things.
(b) A woman of order.
(c) A woman of impulse.
(d) A woman of ill repute.

13. Who comes to wake Mira up in the middle of the night in Chapter 9?
(a) Sam.
(b) Rosa.
(c) Beth.
(d) Peter.

14. What is at the bottom of the steps to Adan's house?
(a) A burger stand.
(b) A patch of coconut trees.
(c) An old jet ski.
(d) A doghouse.

15. Why does Lala take the baby back from Adan in Chapter 6?
(a) She does not want Tone to hold the baby.
(b) She does not want Jacinthe to hold the baby.
(c) She wants to see if the baby needs a change.
(d) She is afraid the baby might throw up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an essential part of Adan's story reaching back to childhood?

2. What had Peter been trying to do when he had been killed?

3. What story does Wilma tell Lala in the Prologue?

4. What do Adan and Lala fight over in Chapter 14?

5. What work did Wilma do in the 1960s?

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