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

2. What activity does Max undertake alone each Friday night?
(a) He goes bowling.
(b) He goes to the movies.
(c) He goes for a run.
(d) He goes for a swim.

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

4. What entire novel does Julia read to Alice in Chapter 10?
(a) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
(b) The Secret Garden.
(c) Anne of Green Gables.
(d) Tarzan.

5. Which character is sent by Ellie to the diner to fetch a hot meal that may lure Girl out of the maple tree?
(a) Lori.
(b) Peanut.
(c) Cal.
(d) Earl.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Both Ellie and Julia know "that the overwhelming number of child abductions" (94) are perpetrated in what way?

3. Julia and Ellie's mother had confided in which character(s) about the deepest secrets of her marriage?

4. What is the legal first name of Ellie's best female friend who goes by the nickname Peanut?

5. For what reason does Julia agree to Ellie's request for help?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of Max's character does Julia admit to being seduced by at the end of Chapter 11?

2. In what way does the theme of hope enter the narrative in relation to Julia's position as a psychiatrist?

3. How does a maple tree figure into Chapter 3 and into the discovery of Girl?

4. In what way does Julia consider her mother to have been her closest ally in the family?

5. What does Julia mean when she tells Max that Girl is "just like a cat" (81)?

6. What does the piano symbolize within the narrative?

7. What kinds of objects terrify Girl and how do Julia, Ellie, Peanut and Max address the problem when they move Girl to Ellie's house?

8. What coping mechanism does Julia use to deal with the feelings evoked by seeing her ballerina music box in her childhood room?

9. Who is Amber and what had she done prior to the novel's opening?

10. Who are Cal and Peanut?

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