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

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

3. Where does Lala keep some of her money she earned from braiding?
(a) Under the mattress.
(b) In her shoes.
(c) In a book.
(d) Buried in a spot on the beach in a tin.

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

5. What does Peter Whalen do for a living?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Sports star.
(d) Hedge fund manager.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car does Rosa's husband drive?

2. What happens in Mira's nightmares in Chapter 2?

3. What does Wilma tell Esme about what Carson has done to her in Chapter 11?

4. Who is in charge of the investigation into Baby's death?

5. What does Lala call her baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Baby die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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