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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. While staying at Jamie's house, what of Maggie's does Allie use?
(a) Her perfume.
(b) Her email account.
(c) Her bubble bath.
(d) Her special chocolate.

2. What does Mia teach Allie about while they work together in the flower shop?
(a) Bonsai trees.
(b) Flower arrangements.
(c) Herbal potions.
(d) Roses.

3. What is the darkest secret that Mia confesses to Cam?
(a) She is a runaway.
(b) She uses drugs.
(c) She is in love with him.
(d) She is a murderer.

4. Which defense does Graham decide to use at Jamie's trial?
(a) The euthanasia defense.
(b) Mental instabilty.
(c) Self defense.
(d) Temporary insanity.

5. As the novel begins, the woman puts all her husband's possessions from her house in ______ on the front lawn.
(a) Liquor boxes.
(b) Garbage bags.
(c) The pond.
(d) Wooden crates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Allie's flower shop?

2. What does Allie offer to the strange woman she finds in her flower shop?

3. Cam thought when Allie looked at him she saw what?

4. What does Cam have when he shows up at the flower shop when Mia has an unexpected visitor?

5. In what year is the novel taking place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important information does Maggie's best friend tell Allie?

2. What is Jamie's theory about marriage?

3. Why does Cam have more influence in Wheelock than a typical police chief?

4. Why did Ellen McDonald embrace New Age ideas after her husband's death eight years ago?

5. In the opening of the novel, what does the woman do after her husband comes home to a house that has been emptied of his possessions?

6. What does Mia contemplate doing as she looks through Cam and Allie's medicine cabinet?

7. What kind of wife is Allie to Cam?

8. What proves to Allie that is was a good decision to hire Mia to work in her shop?

9. What is Jamie's occupation and how did it involve Maggie?

10. What is the library lecture given by Verona MacBean about?

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