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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the legal first name of Ellie's best female friend who goes by the nickname Peanut?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Susan.

2. Who rushes into the police station to say that Ellie must come to Magnolia Street right away?
(a) Marge.
(b) Julia.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Lori.

3. 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?
(a) "Why her?" (46)
(b) "I'm sorry" (46).
(c) "Forgive me" (46).
(d) "Please don't" (46).

4. Julia tells Ellie that she wants to turn one corner of Alice's room into a what?
(a) A forest.
(b) An aquarium.
(c) A sharing spot.
(d) A sanctuary.

5. Who asks Julia how she can "listen to sad stories all day long" (137)?
(a) Cal.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Peanut.
(d) Max.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ellie threaten to do to the local reporter if he publishes anything about Julia?

3. There are seats for how many reporters at the first press conference about Girl?

4. At what type of meeting did Julia's former patient Amber open fire with an automatic weapon?

5. Why do people in Rain Valley often go silent when Cal's wife Lisa is mentioned?

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