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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. When Kelly returns home from the coffee shop in "December Kelly," she finds that Steve isn't home. When she calls him, where does she find that he is?
(a) The park.
(b) Stuck in traffic.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) Looking for a job.

2. Where is Lia when she has her dream?
(a) At their new house.
(b) In the car.
(c) In her apartment..
(d) On the plane.

3. What do Sam and Lia do in the car on the way home from the airport?
(a) Talk.
(b) Fight.
(c) Make love.
(d) Cry.

4. What is different about Lia's dream this time?
(a) Nothing, it is the same.
(b) Sam is with her.
(c) It is a different baby.
(d) Caleb is alive.

5. Of whom is Andrew speaking when he says, "Fine, disown us, we're better off without her"?
(a) Mimi.
(b) Ayinde.
(c) Lia.
(d) Kelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the photographer opens the closet?

2. How does Lia expect Sam to feel toward her?

3. What is Andrew doing when Becky returns home in "February Becky"?

4. Why is Becky upset by what is in the package?

5. Lia's mother tells Lia that she has been talking to someone. Whom has Lia's mother been talking to?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter "February Lia," how is it shown that Lia is still in love and wants to reach out to Sam?

2. How does the author begin to show suspense in "December Ayinde"?

3. How does Becky crack the tough shell Mimi has built around her?

4. Explain the irony between how Ayinde's day begins and how it ends.

5. How does the readers' perception of Steve change in "January Kelly"?

6. How does the need for communication show in "February Kelly"?

7. Kelly has been driven by appearances and having everything perfect. How does this change in "February Kelly"?

8. What is Kelly trying to do by not letting Steve help even when he offers?

9. Starting with "November Lia," tell how Lia is beginning to appear on the road to recovery.

10. How does Ayinde implement what she learned from her parents in her childhood: that she was a lucky little girl to live so well and she had to be kind and helpful to those less fortunate?

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