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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Thelma gone to do after college?
(a) Went to nursing school.
(b) Go into stand up comedy.
(c) Began traveling the country.
(d) Started truck driving.

2. What does Kokoschka say to Laura in the cemetery?
(a) You will be with your mother and father soon enough.
(b) He will fail.
(c) You will be mine.
(d) Why you?

3. What does Dr. Carlson say about the baby girl's hair?
(a) She has a few red hairs standing out.
(b) Her hair is thick and brown.
(c) It is curly and blond.
(d) She is bald.

4. What does Danny do after reading Laura's book, Shadrach?
(a) Buys Laura a new couch.
(b) Buys Laura a very expensive bowl.
(c) Buys a new car.
(d) Threatens to divorce her if she publishes it.

5. What does the strange man mouth to Bob while standing outside the nursery window?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Mine.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Perfect.

6. What does the blue-eyed man say when Markwell says 'I still don't know who you are.'? (page 20)
(a) Yes you do.
(b) I'm your conscience.
(c) I'm you.
(d) You never will.

7. What does Sheener tell Laura as she leaves up the stairs?
(a) That he has a big tootsie roll for her.
(b) That she and he are going to be friends.
(c) That she can't ignore him forever.
(d) That she will be his.

8. Who does Bob tell Laura the toad is on business for?
(a) The queen.
(b) The king.
(c) The president.
(d) The government.

9. What happens when Nina comes in and sees Laura lying under Sheener's body?
(a) She screams and runs out of the house.
(b) She goes for a gun and shoots Sheener.
(c) She dies of a heart attack.
(d) She tells Laura she must leave.

10. Who is waiting for Laura when she exits Mrs. Bowmain's office?
(a) Kokoschka
(b) Sheener.
(c) The Ackerson twins.
(d) Stefan.

11. What does Dr. Carlson tell Bob is the reason that his wife died?
(a) She had a reaction to the medicine they gave her.
(b) She aspirated some water.
(c) She was one of those women who wasn't made to have children.
(d) She had high blood pressure.

12. What does Laura say she believes has stopped in her life while talking to Thelma at Laura's wedding?
(a) Her world falling apart.
(b) Fires.
(c) Life being against her.
(d) Lightning.

13. What does Laura realize that Sheener is showing when he looks at her now?
(a) Confusion.
(b) An empty blank stare.
(c) Even more desire.
(d) Anger.

14. What does the blue-eyed man tell Markwell is his trouble?
(a) Markwell never had to struggle for anything.
(b) Markwell was a hypocrite.
(c) Markwell thinks he is better than everyone else.
(d) Markwell had let himself hide from his son's death.

15. What does the blue-eyed man ask Markwell about Dr. Carlson?
(a) If he is older or younger.
(b) If he has seen Mrs. Shane before.
(c) How many babies he has delivered.
(d) If he is a good man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Danny and Laura date before getting married?

2. Why do the Ackerson twins say no one says anything against Sheener?

3. What do the kids call Sheener?

4. Where does Laura find the second figurine?

5. What does Tammy do when it becomes obvious that Sheener no longer wants her, only Laura?

(see the answer keys)

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