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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 does Rose want to take too many of to the beach?
(a) Buckets.
(b) Swimsuits.
(c) Books.
(d) Dolls.

2. What is Amanda's job title?
(a) Administrative assistant.
(b) Account director.
(c) President and CEO.
(d) Managing supervisor.

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

4. What does someone bring up in Chapter 11 that Amanda does not want to talk about?
(a) Money.
(b) Pregnancy.
(c) Cancer.
(d) 9/11.

5. What publication is Clay currently writing a piece for?
(a) Staid.
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) Wired.
(d) The New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose see in Chapter 13?

2. What does Amanda hear that startles her in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 10, why is Amanda angry at Clay?

4. What does Amanda find herself thinking that the people who owned the vacation house were rich enough for in Chapter 2?

5. What does Clay tell Amanda she is terrible with in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rose's and Archie's relationship like?

2. What does Clay think when G.H. Washington tells him where he lives in New York City?

3. Why does Clay indulge Rose's request to take many books to the beach?

4. Why does Rose decide not to tell the adults about the deer she sees in Chapter 15?

5. How do Amanda and Clay feel about the vacation house?

6. What does the title "Leave the World Behind" refer to?

7. In Chapter 12, why are G.H. and Ruth comforted by the things in the basement of the vacation house?

8. In Chapter 10, what does Amanda tell Clay she wishes she had of his that she does not actually mean?

9. What does Amanda tell Ruth about how she wants to treat the information about whatever is happening in the world in terms of her children?

10. What racist thought does Amanda have about the Washingtons in relation to the vacation house?

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