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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lala take to work with Wilma with her sometimes?
(a) A mannequin head to practice braiding on.
(b) Books.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) Ice cream.

2. When does Sergeant Beckles first meet the Queen of Sheba?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1988.

3. What type of woman is the Queen of Sheba to Sergeant Beckles?
(a) The type he could kill.
(b) The type he would marry.
(c) The type he would ruin.
(d) The type he would build a house for.

4. What does Wilma want Esme to do with her baby?
(a) Wilma does not know about Esme's baby.
(b) Give her up for adoption.
(c) Raise her.
(d) Have an abortion.

5. Where do Lala and Tone first have sex?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) In the tunnels.
(c) The sea inlet where dolphins gather.
(d) The cliffs.

6. Where is Baby's wake after the funeral?
(a) Mira's.
(b) Tone's.
(c) Adan's.
(d) Wilma's.

7. What does Auntie Petra do to Adan for stealing from Dr. Thompson's daughter?
(a) Throws him out of the house.
(b) Grounds him.
(c) Beats him.
(d) Makes him eat dirt.

8. What kind of dresses does Lala wear on the beach in Chapter 22?
(a) Polyester.
(b) Seersucker.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Gingham.

9. Who does Lala approach on the beach after Adan beats her in Chapter 18?
(a) Grayson and Mira.
(b) Sergeant Beckles.
(c) Tone.
(d) Wilma.

10. Who does Mira have an affair with?
(a) Her real estate agent, Henry.
(b) Tone.
(c) An art student named Fred.
(d) Her former accountant, Teddy.

11. How does Lala pay for Baby's funeral in Chapter 24?
(a) With money from Mira.
(b) With money from Grayson.
(c) With money from Tone.
(d) With money from Wilma.

12. What does Mira notice about how Rosa treats the first Mrs. Whalen?
(a) She is more affectionate with her than she is with Mira.
(b) She acts like a child in front of the first Mrs. Whalen.
(c) She is very deferential to the first Mrs. Whalen.
(d) She is colder towards her than she is with Mira.

13. Who does Mira confess some details about her feelings about her affair to?
(a) Tone.
(b) Grayson.
(c) Rosa's husband.
(d) Adan.

14. Where does Lala first meet Adan?
(a) At a fair.
(b) At a club.
(c) At the warehouse where they both work.
(d) At school.

15. What gnaws at Tone even after he is punished for beating others?
(a) His guilt.
(b) His poverty.
(c) His sorrow over his lost baby with Lala.
(d) The Thing He Can Not Name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lala pretend to be sleeping in Chapter 18?

2. What is Tone's full name?

3. Why does Tone wait and watch Lala's house in Chapter 17?

4. How has Beckles come to take the solving of Baby's murder?

5. Where does Adan get Lala's engagement ring?

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