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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the problem that Annie sees with ruleless relationships?
(a) One struggles to return to a relationship that has rules.
(b) One never knows how the other is entitled to feel.
(c) One is never sure how to get out of a ruleless relationship.
(d) One is always wanting to know the rules.

2. What does Graham need to perform well, when sleeping with Annie these days?
(a) A romantic movie.
(b) A great deal of sleep.
(c) The magic blue pill.
(d) Lots of pillows.

3. What is the problem with Rosemary Gregory?
(a) She is a difficult employee.
(b) She has threatened to tell Annie about the affair.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She thinks there is something between her and Graham.

4. How do they all feel when Frieda and Annie become good friends?
(a) Worried.
(b) Happy.
(c) Upset.
(d) Surprised.

5. Why does Sarah feel odd receiving her mother's phone call in front of Thomas?
(a) She wants to be alone.
(b) It is hard for her to keep her composure.
(c) She does not know Thomas very well.
(d) She does not like to talk on the phone in front of others.

6. How does Annie feel as she wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) That something is off.
(c) Happy.
(d) The same as usual.

7. What does Annie think is missing as she looks at Graham's body?
(a) His soul.
(b) His favorite watch.
(c) His wedding ring.
(d) Something essential to Graham.

8. What does Annie think about the two gallery shows she had in New York, regarding her future career?
(a) They were a good omen.
(b) They were perhaps misleading.
(c) They guided her to her current group of friends.
(d) They were just the start of her career.

9. How does Sarah know that Thomas is interested in her?
(a) He tells her he is attracted to her.
(b) Their evening together lasts much longer than she expected.
(c) He asks when he can see her again.
(d) He asks to come home with her.

10. Why does Annie begin to laugh in Chapter 8?
(a) She thinks about her new future life as a widow.
(b) She thinks back on good times with Graham.
(c) She wants to cheer herself up.
(d) She hears the EMTs laughing as they struggle to move Graham's large body down the stairs.

11. Why does Sarah say that men find her voice more attractive than her looks?
(a) She is okay-looking.
(b) She is very short.
(c) She has thinning hair.
(d) She is fat.

12. In Chapter 3, Graham remembers that after meeting Annie at his party he did not want what to happen?
(a) For her to slip away.
(b) To look like a fool in front of her.
(c) Her to get lost on her way back home.
(d) For her to return to the bookstore.

13. Who does Annie think it is at the door near the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Lucas.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Graham.
(d) John.

14. How does Graham describe the day his bookstore opened and he met Annie and the day he and Annie wed?
(a) Two wonderful days.
(b) The two happiest days of his life.
(c) The two scariest days of his life.
(d) Two days that will live in infamy.

15. What is one thing the narrator does NOT say Graham remembers about the day his first wife, Frieda, left him?
(a) Homely Frieda in her old tweed coat.
(b) Lucas being carried in Frieda's arms to the car.
(c) How free he felt.
(d) The chilly morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT something Annie mentions in Chapter 3 regarding the central element of her marriage to Graham?

2. What is Frieda doing when Annie calls?

3. How does Annie respond when she sees Graham's bouquet in Chapter 7?

4. What does Frieda like about Annie?

5. Why is Thomas on Sarah's radio station's talk show?

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