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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 did Kiki do for a living right after she returned to New York from Istanbul?
(a) She became a professor.
(b) She opened her own carpet shop.
(c) She worked at an animal clinic.
(d) She sold smuggled goods.

2. What is Oliver's father's name?
(a) Boyd.
(b) James.
(c) Maxwell.
(d) Kelvin.

3. What does Kiki give to Reyna when Oliver is born?
(a) A very useful layette of baby things.
(b) Boxes of diapers.
(c) Baby bottles.
(d) A new carpet.

4. Which patient of Darisse's has advanced lung cancer?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Jackie.
(c) Florence.
(d) Robert.

5. Which of the following ways does Darisse try to find out what happened to Claude?
(a) She looks in the phone book for his home phone number.
(b) She calls his sister Lynette.
(c) She hires a private detective.
(d) She scours social media for news of Claude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kiki's relatives suspect was the reason her marriage to Osman ended?

2. Why is Darisse not able to live with her daughter?

3. What kind of flowers does Silas have in his apartment?

4. Who does Claude meet in Virginia that he is excited about?

5. What happens with Teddy's insurance company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Darisse's job and what is the reader's impression of how well she performs it?

2. What does Darisse tell Silas about where Jesuauna's present from Claude came from?

3. Why is Darisse unable to have custody of her two year-old daughter, Jeshauna?

4. Why does Kiki's Turkish boyfriend, who later becomes her husband, stop selling carpets?

5. Why do Boyd and his friends ask Reyna to drive one of the runs to Virginia to smuggle cigarettes?

6. How does Lionel treat Darisse when she comes to pick up her daughter?

7. What does Kiki end up doing for a living after her own shop fails, and how does her family feel about it?

8. What does Kiki eventually tell her family about why her marriage ended and why she was coming home from Turkey?

9. What does Reyna think when she sees the women on the bus to Rikers Island doing their hair and makeup?

10. What was Reyna's real reason for wanting Kiki to stay with her and Oliver during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy?

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