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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 101 - 149).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clay think of the lights going out in New York City as?
(a) A sign that the rapture is coming.
(b) An inevitability.
(c) A small disturbance.
(d) An Act of God.

2. How long ago had the Washingtons bought the house?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 10 years.

3. What phrase does Ruth recall her mother saying in Chapter 18?
(a) Always keep the wind at your back.
(b) There but for the grace of God go I.
(c) God love them.
(d) God willing.

4. What does Amanda find herself thinking that the people who owned the vacation house were rich enough for in Chapter 2?
(a) They were rich enough to be luxurious.
(b) They were rich enough to be tasteless.
(c) They were rich enough to be thoughtful.
(d) They were rich enough to be lazy.

5. In Chapter 8, what is one of Amanda's skills?
(a) Soothing people.
(b) Recognizing people.
(c) Angering people.
(d) Carpentry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ruth and G.H. note is strange in its absence in Chapter 23?

2. What does Ruth find problematic about the basement?

3. Where is the vacation house Amanda and Clay have rented?

4. Which airline had lost a plane during the crisis that no character in the story is aware of?

5. Who had G.H. and Ruth finished the basement for?

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