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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 is one major reason Clay keeps repeating that he thinks they should let the Washingtons stay?
(a) Amanda and Clay might be able to leverage their kindness later.
(b) They are old.
(c) They are rich.
(d) They can cook well.

2. What does Clay do for a living?
(a) He is a software engineer.
(b) He is a professor.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is an architect.

3. What does Clay tell Amanda she is terrible with in Chapter 10?
(a) Finances.
(b) Faces.
(c) Maternal instinct.
(d) Cooking.

4. What does G.H. ask Clay and Amanda for in Chapter 11 besides asking to stay for the night?
(a) A swim in the pool.
(b) Something to eat.
(c) To get sheets for them for their bed.
(d) To let him borrow a sweater.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does G.H. drink in Chapter 11?

2. What does Amanda think about the way the Washingtons look in relation to the question of them owning the house?

3. What does the memorial at the beach commemorate?

4. How does Amanda feel when she sees she had 41 emails in Chapter 5?

5. What does the person on the porch say to Clay when he opens the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In Chapter 17, what do Ruth and Amanda work on together that helps them bond just a little?

4. What does G.H. offer to Clay and Amanda to try to convince them to let him and Ruth stay the night?

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 13, what does Rose see outside that is highly unusual and a bit unsettling?

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

10. How do both Clay and Amanda react when they hear a noise in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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