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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 go back to college.
(c) To buy new dresses.
(d) To give to Tone to make up her debts.

2. What does Tone wear on a necklace?
(a) A shark's tooth.
(b) A tooth of his own.
(c) A silver charm.
(d) A dollar bill.

3. What story does Wilma tell Lala in the Prologue?
(a) The story about the troll.
(b) The story about the one-armed sister.
(c) The story about the mermaid.
(d) The story about the fisherman.

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

5. Who is Mira's mother?
(a) Esme.
(b) Sally.
(c) Martha.
(d) Wilma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tone sell on the beach?

2. What problem was in Mira's and Peter's relationship when Peter died?

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

4. Who comes to take the children for the night in Chapter 9 from Mira?

5. Who does Wilma send Esme to live with in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Baby die?

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

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

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

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

6. What interrupts the robber in Mira's house in Part I?

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

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

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

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

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