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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What important event has Graham forgotten in Chapter 2?
(a) His daughter's birthday.
(b) His bookstore's party.
(c) Annie's photography show.
(d) His lunch date with John.

4. 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 annoyed.
(c) They are shy.
(d) They are nervous.

5. What does Frieda feel Annie does not know about Graham?
(a) Graham's love of music.
(b) Graham's family.
(c) Graham's continued love for Frieda.
(d) The real Graham.

6. Why is Thomas on Sarah's radio station's talk show?
(a) He was interviewing to be a talk show host.
(b) He had just released an album.
(c) He had just published a book.
(d) He was a local politician.

7. Where did Annie grow up?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) New York.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Chicago.

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

9. Why are Graham and Annie worried about Karen?
(a) She seems to have grown more eccentric and is addled at times.
(b) She often wanders into the street.
(c) She frequently calls the police on them.
(d) She is becoming very aggressive.

10. 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 white scar on her forehead.
(d) A crooked finger.

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

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

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

14. How does Graham finally get up the nerve to end his relationship with Rosemary?
(a) Graham promises John he will end it with Rosemary.
(b) Graham goes to therapist for advice.
(c) Graham confesses to Annie and tells her he will end the relationship with Rosemary.
(d) Graham calls her and says he needs to speak to her about something and knows he will have to have this talk.

15. 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 mentions a party that Rosemary was not invited to and her nice husband.
(b) Annie cut Rosemary in line and told her to stop complaining.
(c) Annie mentions that she thinks Graham is having an affair.
(d) Annie tells her it is good that Rosemary goes to the gym to stay slim.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Annie feel as she wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. Why does Annie begin to laugh in Chapter 8?

3. Of whom is Annie thinking as the story begins?

4. What advice does John give to Graham regarding ending his affair with Rosemary?

5. When Annie asks Graham what is worrying him, what is his response?

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