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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 Amanda say to Clay after they have sex in Chapter 5?
(a) She has been seeing someone else.
(b) She has been considering buying a second house.
(c) He has to quit smoking.
(d) He has to quit drinking.

2. What does Ruth find problematic about the basement?
(a) She dislikes the darkness.
(b) She hates the stairs.
(c) She thinks the colors are awful.
(d) She thinks it smells.

3. What is Rose upset about in Chapter 13?
(a) The sky is gray.
(b) The pool is sullied.
(c) The television does not work.
(d) The weather is too hot.

4. What do Ruth and Amanda try to do to get some news?
(a) Open their tablets.
(b) Open their computers.
(c) Turn the television on.
(d) Run to the neighbors' house.

5. 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 lazy.
(c) They were rich enough to be thoughtful.
(d) They were rich enough to be tasteless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose see in Chapter 13?

2. What does Amanda ask Clay to do with her before answering the people's request who had shown up on the porch?

3. What celebrity did Ruth used to see from her office window sometimes at the school?

4. What does Clay think is decent proof that the Washingtons are who they say they are?

5. In Chapter 3, where does Amanda go on an errand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What is Clay's and Amanda's first impression of the Washingtons in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 11, what do the Washingtons sheepishly ask Clay and Amanda for?

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

7. What habit does Clay have that is bad for his health but he still performs relentlessly?

8. Why do G.H. and Ruth say they did not want to go back into New York City?

9. What happens to Clay that unsettles him in Chapter 16?

10. Why does Amanda refuse to entertain Rose's entreaties to try to meet up with her friend Hazel?

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