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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 happens to Esme in Chapter 11 that becomes a terrible family secret?
(a) She is assaulted on the beach by a neighbor.
(b) Her father rapes her.
(c) Her mother beats her to death.
(d) She robs a store and is sent to jail.

2. Who does not want to let Mira and the children in at the convenience store?
(a) Tone.
(b) Markely.
(c) Henley.
(d) Adan.

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

4. What work did Wilma do in the 1960s?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Planting.
(d) Braiding hair.

5. What happens to the baby in Chapter 6?
(a) Adan and Lala both drop her.
(b) She gets stung by a bee.
(c) She falls out the window.
(d) She gets a high fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Mira's mother?

3. What does Tone sell on the beach?

4. What is the curse Wilma tells the police the Wilkinson women have?

5. Who comes to Lala's aid when Baby is found dead on the beach in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Baby die?

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

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

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

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

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

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