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

2. Who comes to visit Lala and Adan in Chapter 6?
(a) Wilma.
(b) Esme.
(c) Tone and Jacinthe.
(d) Mira.

3. Why does Lala go looking for Adan in Chapter 1?
(a) She has just lost her cat.
(b) She has cut hersef.
(c) She needs to remind him he is late for work.
(d) She is in labor.

4. Who are Mira's stepchildren?
(a) Beth and Riley.
(b) Tone and Sam.
(c) Beth and Sam.
(d) Riley and Sam.

5. Who is Mira's father?
(a) Tony Robinson.
(b) Howard Cross.
(c) James Martineau.
(d) Bill Bentley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason Lala thinks Baby died?

2. What does Adan buy Lala when she is pregant even though they are very expensive?

3. Why does Lala take the baby back from Adan in Chapter 6?

4. Who does not want to let Mira and the children in at the convenience store?

5. What does the person who wakes Mira up in the middle of the night in Chapter 9 ask her for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lala go out to find Adan in the middle of the night early in Part I?

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

3. What does Mira want more than anything after she marries Peter?

4. Why does Mira repeatedly buy raisins at the store following Peter's death?

5. What has Mira Whalen's mother always advocated?

6. What does Sergeant Beckles think about the death of Baby?

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

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

9. What is Peter trying to do when the robber kills him?

10. Why does Esme resent Wilma so much in later years?

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