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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of woman does Amanda believe herself to be in Chapter 22?
(a) A sly woman.
(b) A kind woman.
(c) A Renaissance woman.
(d) A woman of the world.

2. What does Clay briefly considering using to try to understand the person he meets in Chapter 20?
(a) Google translate on his phone.
(b) His high school language classes.
(c) His GPS.
(d) His pocket dictionary.

3. What does G.H. tell Amanda that Maya does for a living?
(a) Runs a law firm.
(b) She is an advertising executive.
(c) Runs a Montessori school.
(d) She is a doctor.

4. What landmark does Clay look for to show him the way back to the vacation house?
(a) The egg shack.
(b) The Starbucks.
(c) The soup kitchen.
(d) The large rock.

5. Where do Amanda's parents live?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Santa Fe.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Toldeo.

6. What do Ruth and G.H. note is strange in its absence in Chapter 23?
(a) Air traffic noise overhead.
(b) Birds.
(c) The barking of dogs.
(d) Deer.

7. Which airline had lost a plane during the crisis that no character in the story is aware of?
(a) Southwest.
(b) American.
(c) United.
(d) Delta.

8. In Chapter 33, what happens to Amanda in the morning?
(a) Her hair falls out.
(b) She vomits.
(c) She has a bad headache.
(d) Her teeth fall out.

9. In Chapter 34, what does G.H. offer that Ruth is not in favor of?
(a) His gun.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Going with Clay and Archie to the hospital.

10. What does Clay think was strange about his trip in the car earlier in Chapter 26?
(a) He did not see a single other car.
(b) He saw herds of deer passing.
(c) He saw a lot of standing water by the lake.
(d) He saw a lot of crows gathered in the road.

11. What does Amanda say her children rely too much upon?
(a) Their phones.
(b) Their privilege.
(c) Their looks.
(d) Their parents.

12. Who is Ruth's partner?
(a) Ray.
(b) Clara.
(c) Benji.
(d) Ella.

13. What does the narrator reveals is the fate of the man who runs the laundromat Amada uses?
(a) He will flourish in his business after the disaster.
(b) He will die of cancer.
(c) He will die trapped in an elevator.
(d) He will die in a car accident.

14. What can Amanda not help herself but blame the Washingtons for in Chapter 28?
(a) The terrible things that the herd of deer seemed to predict.
(b) Bringing the world into their vacation house - and all its current misery.
(c) The fact that her car broke down.
(d) The soiled state of the pool.

15. Who does G.H. tell Amanda his mentor was?
(a) His own father.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His college professor.
(d) One of the first Black men on Wall Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 34, who is Ruth wondering about and musing about what this person is doing right then?

2. What does G.H. theorize about the creatures everyone saw in the pool?

3. In Chapter 34, who goes missing?

4. In Chapter 28, what can G.H. not wait to see?

5. What does Ruth know she should invite Amanda to do in the end of Chapter 25?

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