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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Frieda respond when Graham confides in her that he had an extramarital affair while married to Annie?
(a) She is silent.
(b) She walks away.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She weeps.

3. How does Frieda react in Chapter 8 to the news of Graham's passing?
(a) She is silent.
(b) She cries out violently.
(c) She sobs quietly.
(d) She moans.

4. What are the two levels on which Annie feels she is living in Chapter 8?
(a) She wants to mother Sarah as well as be mothered by Sarah.
(b) She feels both happy and relieved.
(c) She wants to be busy and useful, as well as curled up in bed.
(d) One that seems to be trying to disengage from what is happening and one that is trying to realize it.

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

6. Why does Annie wait to call Sarah in Chapter 8?
(a) Sarah would not want to be bothered by this news.
(b) Sarah should be the last person she calls.
(c) Sarah lives in California and will not be awake yet.
(d) Annie is not ready to talk to her.

7. When Annie and Rosemary run into each other at the grocery store, what does Annie say that makes her think that she had offended Rosemary?
(a) Annie tells her it is good that Rosemary goes to the gym to stay slim.
(b) Annie cut Rosemary in line and told her to stop complaining.
(c) Annie mentions a party that Rosemary was not invited to and her nice husband.
(d) Annie mentions that she thinks Graham is having an affair.

8. Of whom is Annie thinking as the story begins?
(a) Frieda.
(b) Alan.
(c) Jeff.
(d) Sarah.

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

10. What has led to Annie's current photography show?
(a) A connection of Graham's.
(b) A gallery show in New York.
(c) A photoshoot for a New England magazine.
(d) Photographs of Annie's mother.

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

12. 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.

13. What does the narrator say is "a later element in his (Graham's) transformation?"
(a) His love of expensive clothes.
(b) His beard.
(c) His long curly hair.
(d) His interest in fine food.

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

15. What does Annie think about eating dinner in the indoor twilight?
(a) There is something strange about it.
(b) There is something spooky about it.
(c) There is something pleasant about it.
(d) There is something sad about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem that Annie sees with ruleless relationships?

2. How does Graham respond when Annie says that he is a good husband?

3. What of Frieda's does Lucas remember wanting to first fix and then flee?

4. What has become fashionable for women to wear that amazes Graham?

5. What important event has Graham forgotten in Chapter 2?

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