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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Orange Line Train to Ballston and The Sunday Following Mother's Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Manny doing at the table when Caesar arrives?
(a) Manny is eating a late breakfast.
(b) Manny is counting cash.
(c) Manny is rolling a cigarette.
(d) Manny is reading the Post aloud.

2. How does Rhonda die?
(a) Rhonda overdoses on drugs.
(b) Rhonda is shot.
(c) Rhonda's father stabs her.
(d) Rhonda dies from alcohol poisoning.

3. What is the only reason Cassandra does not think it would be fair to shoot the fathers of Joyce's and Pearl's babies?
(a) The "It takes two to tango" rule.
(b) The boys offered to marry the girls.
(c) Boys will be boys.
(d) The boys' families would miss them.

4. What does Maddie think the blood seeping out of Angie's body represents?
(a) The end of her friend's life.
(b) The anger, hatred, and resentment of marriage.
(c) The loss of her innocence, joy, and kindness.
(d) The end of her brother's life.

5. In "The First Day", the admissions staff members at Seaton Elementary look like models out of which of the following magazines?
(a) Marie Claire.
(b) Ebony.
(c) Vogue.
(d) Good Housekeeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts Cassandra as she writes her phone number down for Wesley?

2. In "The Store", how long had the protagonist been out of work before he responded to the ad in the newspaper?

3. How many times this week has Caesar dreamed of the mentally disabled woman he plans to defraud?

4. How old is Avis?

5. When does "The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed" take place?

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