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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 Wilma's relationship to Lala?
(a) She is her sister.
(b) She is her cousin.
(c) She is her mother.
(d) She is her grandmother.

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

3. What problem was in Mira's and Peter's relationship when Peter died?
(a) Peter was having an affair.
(b) Peter was sick.
(c) Mira was having an affair.
(d) Mira was sick.

4. Why does Adan hide before he knows who has come to visit them in Chapter 6?
(a) He is hiding from the police.
(b) He has scars he is ashamed of.
(c) He is too hungry to wait and talk to visitors before eating.
(d) He does not want to see anyone besides Wilma.

5. Why does Adan leave Lala at the hospital alone having their baby in Chapter 1?
(a) He goes to see the woman he is having an affair with.
(b) He goes to see his own mother.
(c) He has a job to do.
(d) He is afraid the police will be looking for him because he just murdered a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is really Lala's father?

2. What is one reason Lala wants money in Chapter 14?

3. What does Mira think about how the police are handling the murder investigation?

4. Why does Lala go looking for Adan in Chapter 1?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the hospital staff treat Lala when she has her baby there?

4. How does Baby die?

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

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

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

8. What lie does Lala tell about where Adan was when Baby "disappeared"?

9. What problems does Sam have following Peter's death?

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

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