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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 does Adan do sometimes on good days with Lala?
(a) Cooks for her.
(b) Buys her nice dresses.
(c) Plays tennis.
(d) Sings her name as they lie in bed.

2. What does Mira's mother suggest doing on the phone after Peter's death?
(a) Selling all Mira's assets.
(b) Eating more.
(c) Mira adopting a child.
(d) Praying.

3. What does Mira think about how the police are handling the murder investigation?
(a) They are making progress but have not found the killer yet.
(b) They are botching it.
(c) They are getting paid to ignore it.
(d) They are doing an excellent job.

4. What does Wilma tell Esme about what Carson has done to her in Chapter 11?
(a) Not to tell anyone about it.
(b) To go to the police in secret.
(c) That God will put things right.
(d) That she will take care of Carson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wilma's last name?

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

3. Who does Lala always see walking a dog on the beach?

4. How does Wilma describe the circumstances of her own marriage?

5. What is wrong with the bathrooms in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises Sergeant Beckles so much about Wilma's story about Baby?

2. Why does Wilma send her own daughter Esme away from the house when Esme is a young girl?

3. What is Wilma's story to the police about her own marriage to Carson?

4. How does Mira Whalen behave for the first five days after the murder of her husband Peter?

5. What does Lala like to do on the beach to earn money?

6. Why does Wilma tell Lala the story of the one-armed sister?

7. Why does Mira repeatedly take the children to the convenience store in the middle of the night?

8. How does the one-armed sister lose her arm?

9. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?

10. Whose fault does Adan tell Lala he thinks Peter Whalen's murder is?

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