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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ellie picks Julia up from the airport, she tells Julia that Peanut's children are now how old?
(a) 9 and 15.
(b) 12 and 13.
(c) 8 and 13.
(d) 14 and 16.

2. For what reason does Julia agree to Ellie's request for help?
(a) She finds meaning in altruism.
(b) She has few remaining patients.
(c) She wants to continue to hone her talk therapy skills.
(d) She has nothing better to do.

3. The narrator states that for Julia, everything "in the past year, every thought and deed, led her back to" (51) what emotion?
(a) Hope.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Anger.
(d) Regret.

4. How many blocks in length is the town of Rain Valley?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

5. Julia considers herself to have grown up "in the shadow of" (50) which member of her family?
(a) Her younger sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her older sister.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many reporters are said to be "huddled on the courthouse steps" (3) as Julia approaches the side entrance?

2. The sight of what instrument in her old childhood home causes her to be "blindsided by a memory" (61) of her mother?

3. Who rushes into the police station to say that Ellie must come to Magnolia Street right away?

4. When Julia decides in the middle of the night to begin writing a book, she ends up "surrounded by balled-up yellow wads of paper," (46) all of which say only which two words?

5. On what part of Girl's body does Max find evidence of ligature marks?

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