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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 is Fraser Buchanan?
(a) A former journalist.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A firefighter.
(d) A publisher.

2. What name does Joan use to purchase a ticket to Rome?
(a) Joan Delacourt.
(b) Louisa K. Delacourt.
(c) Joan Foster.
(d) Lou Foster.

3. In Chapter 33, who does Joan dream is dressed in a navy blue suit and crying behind locked glass doors?
(a) Mr. Vitroni's father.
(b) Fraser Buchanan.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Mr. Vitroni.

4. When does Chuck Brewer tell Joan he loves her?
(a) While she reads to him from her novel.
(b) While waltzing.
(c) After the explosion.
(d) Walking home after dinner.

5. Around the same time Joan is getting anonymous calls, who telephones and invites her to dinner?
(a) Sam.
(b) Paul.
(c) Chuck Brewer.
(d) Mr. Morton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the landlord offer Joan when she tells him she doesn't want the stranger arrested?

2. Who says "Pull yourself together"?

3. What does the landlord's father discover?

4. Who does Joan imagine is skating on the television program?

5. What does Joan bring the reporter in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Royal Porcupine believe his art exhibit is important?

2. How does Joan let go of her past?

3. How does Joan react when she reads the newspaper clippings that Sam sends her?

4. Why does Joan feel she needs to disappear again?

5. What is Joan's reaction when she sees Royal Porcupine turned into Chuck Brewer?

6. How is the final chapter a resolution to Joan's lies and secrets?

7. What piece of evidence leads to Sam and Marlene's arrest?

8. In Chapter 31, how is it clear that Joan is beginning to unravel?

9. What are Paul's intentions towards Joan?

10. What role does the picnicking family play in Joan's plan to disappear?

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