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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. Who does Mira have an affair with?
(a) Her real estate agent, Henry.
(b) Tone.
(c) Her former accountant, Teddy.
(d) An art student named Fred.

2. What disturbs Lala in Chapter 21 that Wilma does to Carson?
(a) Cuts his hair very short.
(b) Sprays his bare bottom with a hose.
(c) Buries him in dirt to remind him of his mortality.
(d) Beats him.

3. Who rejects Tone the day he gets out of jail?
(a) Adan.
(b) Betsy.
(c) Lala.
(d) Mira.

4. Who works in Mrs. Kennedy's garden that Lala encounters for a second time in Chapter 21?
(a) Grayson.
(b) Betsy.
(c) Adan.
(d) Tone.

5. What is one reason for Mira's extreme unhappiness in Chapter 19?
(a) She is very ill.
(b) She is trapped in the house by evil spirits, she believes.
(c) She is lonely and feels she has no real friends or family.
(d) She is broke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gnaws at Tone even after he is punished for beating others?

2. Who does Adan tell Lala he thinks is acting strangely in Chapter 18?

3. What does Lala think supernatural beings are doing on Baby's behalf in Chapter 18?

4. What is Tone's full name?

5. Who comes to visit Lala at the end of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Adan start telling just between himself and Lala about Baby's death?

2. Who takes care of Mira after Peter's death, and how does this person act around Mira?

3. How does Mira feel after Peter's children leave with their mother, Peter's first wife?

4. Who teaches Adan the ins and outs of a life of crime?

5. How does Esme, Lala's mother, die?

6. What problems did Mira and Peter have just before Peter's death?

7. What huge secret is Tone keeping from Adan?

8. What proposition does Adan bring to Tone in Part IV?

9. What is Adan fixated on, strangely, after Baby's funeral?

10. Why is Tone sent to jail as a youngster?

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