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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Danielle's response when Annie says she cannot make it to the gallery on Sunday?
(a) "This better be good."
(b) "Can you stop by the show later this week?"
(c) "I hope everything is okay."
(d) "Okay, no worries."

2. Why is Graham sipping his coffee and thinking about Frieda?
(a) He is feeling guilty for cheating on Annie.
(b) He worried she is sick.
(c) He misses Frieda.
(d) He feels guilty for still begin in love with Frieda.

3. What is Graham's original reason for coming to see Rosemary?
(a) He wants to sleep with her.
(b) He wants to hire her at the bookstore.
(c) He wants to explain that he was joking about having an affair with her.
(d) He needs to ask a favor of her.

4. How does Graham appear when Annie tells him she ran into Rosemary?
(a) He seems startled.
(b) He seems unsure.
(c) He seems angry.
(d) He seems at ease.

5. What does Frieda think about the idea of getting back together with Graham?
(a) Good for Lucas.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) A idea to consider.
(d) Psychologically suicidal.

6. What is the reason John gives for why he has been faithful to his wife?
(a) John feels so bound to her.
(b) John is afraid of what his wife would do to him.
(c) John hates having a guilty conscience.
(d) John loves his wife beyond measure.

7. What do both Frieda and Annie have in common?
(a) They both love jazz music.
(b) They went to the same university.
(c) Their mothers both suffered from Alzheimer's.
(d) They are both from Chicago.

8. How does Graham respond when Annie says that he is a good husband?
(a) He chuckles.
(b) He does not say anything.
(c) "It means everything to me. For you to say that."
(d) "I'm not so sure about that."

9. When Annie turns on the light at the end of Chapter 7, how do they both respond to seeing each other?
(a) They are surprised.
(b) They are nervous.
(c) They are annoyed.
(d) They are shy.

10. When Annie began to weep, for what did she weep?
(a) She was weeping mostly for herself and her new life without Graham.
(b) She was weeping for her children and their loss of a father.
(c) She was weeping for Graham and his unfinished life.
(d) She was weeping for Graham's book store and how she would most likely have to close it.

11. Why is the book reading not cancelled?
(a) There was a signed contract that could not be broken.
(b) The author is already at the bookstore.
(c) Annie thinks Graham would want it to go on.
(d) Annie forgets to have it cancelled.

12. What do both Graham and John have in common?
(a) They dated some of the same women.
(b) They loved football.
(c) Their fathers left them.
(d) Their love of food.

13. How does Rosemary view the romantic relationship between herself and Graham after they sleep together for the first time?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) A mistake.
(c) An accident.
(d) A casual fling.

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

15. What reminder does Annie have of Sarah, as a toddler, hitting her with a heavy toy?
(a) Regular headaches.
(b) A broken blood vessel on her arm.
(c) A crooked finger.
(d) A white scar on her forehead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Graham and Annie worried about Karen?

2. How do they all feel when Frieda and Annie become good friends?

3. From where does Karen tell Annie and Graham she has just arrived?

4. What is Graham's response to Frieda when she apologizes, prior to driving away after their marriage has ended?

5. What is one thing the narrator does NOT say Graham remembers about the day his first wife, Frieda, left him?

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