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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 is one reason Lala wants money in Chapter 14?
(a) To bury Baby.
(b) To give to Tone to make up her debts.
(c) To buy new dresses.
(d) To go back to college.

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

3. Who is Mira married to?
(a) Grayson Franks.
(b) Peter Whalen.
(c) Adan Primus.
(d) Tone.

4. What had Peter been trying to do when he had been killed?
(a) Protect his money.
(b) Save his dog.
(c) Run for the beach.
(d) Save Mira.

5. What is Adan's identifying mark?
(a) His face tattoo.
(b) The scar on his face.
(c) His lisp.
(d) His large birthmark on his arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Esme in Chapter 11 that becomes a terrible family secret?

2. What does Mira repeatedly buy at the convenience store?

3. Who does Adan tell Lala he wants to kill?

4. Who comes to visit Lala and Adan in Chapter 6?

5. What was Wilma thinking about when Esme rushed into her workshop, all beaten and bloody?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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