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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. How does Amanda feel when she sees she had 41 emails in Chapter 5?
(a) Sad.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Necessary and loved.

2. How does Clay feel towards the people on the porch at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Sorry for them.
(b) Indifferent to them.
(c) Angry at them.
(d) Terrified of them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had a past therapist urged Amanda not to do with Clay?

2. What does Clay want to do in Chapter 15?

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

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

5. Who do the people on the porch claim to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 14, what does Ruth tell G.H. she is thinking about in terms of happy memories?

3. What does Ruth notice that she does not like about Clay's and Amanda's presence in the house?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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