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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had Graham said people read fiction?
(a) It suggests that life has a shape, and we feel consoled by that notion.
(b) The characters in works of fiction are much more interesting than real-life people.
(c) Fiction is much easier and is more pleasant to read than non-fiction.
(d) Fiction is a much-needed escape from reality.

2. What is the reason Annie gives for why she is able to so fully forget the disturbing memory from her past?
(a) The disturbing event had ended well.
(b) Annie had gone to therapy.
(c) The event was just a dream.
(d) Annie forced herself to forget the event.

3. How does Sarah describe the smile Annie gives her in Chapter 23?
(a) The smile of someone who is hopeful.
(b) The most joyless smile Sarah had ever seen.
(c) The happiest smile Sarah had seen in awhile.
(d) The most tired smile Sarah had ever seen.

4. What is the reason Frieda gives for why Graham would have an affair?
(a) He never could love just one person.
(b) He was lonely.
(c) His physical needs were complex.
(d) His Grahamness. His appetite for everything.

5. How has Frieda been permanently cut off from her son, based on what is said in Chapter 22?
(a) Her anger towards Graham.
(b) Her friendship with Annie has been uncomfortable for Lucas.
(c) She lives too far away for them to stay well-connected.
(d) Her unreachable sorrow that seems to be a part of who she is.

6. In Chapter 22, what does Jeanne think about the relationship between Annie and Frieda?
(a) She finds it strange.
(b) She finds it sweet.
(c) She thinks it is lovely.
(d) She thinks it is comforting.

7. How does Annie know Sofie?
(a) From the bookstore.
(b) From grammar school.
(c) From the New York art scene.
(d) From college.

8. What disturbing memory surfaces for Annie?
(a) Annie's noisy and disruptive home.
(b) The man on the bridal path who asks to girls to touch his erection.
(c) Getting lost in the park between her home and Sofie's.
(d) Being jealous of Sofie's musical gift.

9. Where had Annie last seen Sofie Kahn's name approximately 35 years earlier?
(a) On a Broadway billboard.
(b) In a New York Times review.
(c) In an advertisement for an orchestra concert.
(d) On television.

10. When Annie returns from Frieda's, how does she look to Sarah, at the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) Distraught.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Happy.
(d) Relaxed.

11. Why does Annie want to talk to Frieda about Graham's betrayal?
(a) Annie wants to speak to someone who will keep this a secret.
(b) Annie wants someone who will be angry with her.
(c) Annie wants to tell someone who can help her tell the children.
(d) Annie wants a shoulder to cry on.

12. What does Sarah do when she realizes she does not want to be alone in her childhood home?
(a) She stops by her father's bookstore.
(b) She visits friends in the neighborhood.
(c) She heads to Vermont to see her mother.
(d) She books a flight back to San Francisco later that day.

13. How had Annie met Edith?
(a) Edith works at the bookstore.
(b) Edith's husband had published Annie's photo book "Emergency."
(c) Edith was a college friend of Annie's.
(d) Edith is Annie and Graham's next door neighbor.

14. What book does Annie start to flip through daily?
(a) Her old photography textbooks.
(b) Her wedding album.
(c) Memoirs of a Geisha
(d) Memoir with Bookshop.

15. What is Frieda's physical reaction when Annie tells her the woman Graham had an affair with was in Graham's office at the end of the party?
(a) She seems ashamed.
(b) She seems puzzled.
(c) She seems sad.
(d) She seems angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice had Annie given Lucas about Lucinda that had stuck with him?

2. How does Annie think she is now just like Frieda?

3. Why is Sarah glad that Annie left for Vermont?

4. How does Annie feel as she drives to Vermont in Chapter 15?

5. How does Annie remember feeling after speaking with the adults at the performances at the Kahn home?

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