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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter Whalen do for a living?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Sports star.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Hedge fund manager.

2. What is one reason Lala thinks Baby died?
(a) Carson is a bad person.
(b) Adan is a bad person.
(c) She is being punished for having a previous abortion.
(d) She did not read enough about how to take care of Baby.

3. What does Adan tell Tone he wants to talk about with him the following day?
(a) A business proposition.
(b) Whether Tone can come for dinner.
(c) Whether Tone wants to buy another jet ski.
(d) If Tone wants to rob a jewelry store with him.

4. What happens in Mira's nightmares in Chapter 2?
(a) She loses her teeth.
(b) She is mauled by a bear.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She loses her fingers.

5. Who does not want to let Mira and the children in at the convenience store?
(a) Adan.
(b) Henley.
(c) Tone.
(d) Markely.

6. Who does Adan tell Lala he wants to kill?
(a) Stella.
(b) Mira Whalen.
(c) Wilma.
(d) Carson.

7. What does Mira repeatedly buy at the convenience store?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Raisins.
(c) Bread.
(d) Milk.

8. Where does Lala keep some of her money she earned from braiding?
(a) Buried in a spot on the beach in a tin.
(b) In her shoes.
(c) Under the mattress.
(d) In a book.

9. How does Wilma describe the circumstances of her own marriage?
(a) She was indifferent to her marriage.
(b) She was wrenched from the many she really loved and forced to marry someone else.
(c) She was fiercely in love.
(d) Her mother tricked her into it.

10. What does Esme always hold against Wilma from what happens with Carson in Chapter 11?
(a) Wilma tells Esme what happened was her fault.
(b) Wilma makes Esme pay for her clothes that were ruined.
(c) Wilma puts Esme right to work that day.
(d) Wilma does not stay to comfort Esme after the rape.

11. What story does Wilma tell Lala in the Prologue?
(a) The story about the fisherman.
(b) The story about the mermaid.
(c) The story about the one-armed sister.
(d) The story about the troll.

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

13. Who does Wilma visit in the hospital in Part I?
(a) Esme.
(b) Lala.
(c) Carson.
(d) Adan.

14. What does Lala do for money on the beach?
(a) Braid tourists' hair.
(b) Sing.
(c) Sell coconuts.
(d) Sell burritos.

15. Where does Adan hide out from the police?
(a) The tunnels and caves.
(b) His mother's house.
(c) Wilma's.
(d) The shack at the edge of town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wilma's relationship to Lala?

2. What does Adan wear on his face during the robbery?

3. What kind of car does Rosa's husband drive?

4. What does Mira's mother suggest doing on the phone after Peter's death?

5. Which worker at the convenience store is often assigned to watch Mira in the middle of the night?

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