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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the Preface?
(a) The author provides her resume.
(b) The author gives acknowledgements.
(c) The author summarizes events.
(d) The author tells her personal history.

2. Surgery prevents Annie from seeing her mother for how long?
(a) Two months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One month.

3. What alarms Annie about her mother's daily life?
(a) She gave away her watch.
(b) She can't be trusted with matches.
(c) She doesn't look for her cologne.
(d) She pours bleach on her clothes.

4. Annie has to remind herself that the situation with her mother ___________________.
(a) Is just temporary.
(b) Is reality.
(c) Is a payback.
(d) Is impossible.

5. What request does Blanche make of Annie that breaks Annie's heart?
(a) To sing her a lullaby.
(b) To tell her a story.
(c) To comb her hair.
(d) To take her away from the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Annie note abut the nursing home?

2. From what country does Annie return at the beginning of this chapter?

3. How does Annie define her own emotional state at this time?

4. What is the last sentence Annie's mother ever wrote?

5. How does Annie feel when the elevator door shuts in her mother's face?

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