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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the street that Sylvia's house is on?
(a) Shady Lane.
(b) Camelot Road.
(c) Chatham Circle.
(d) Development Drive.

2. Why does Sylvia continue to speak with Marcus even though she really does not know him very well?
(a) She knows he needs money and she has a lot of extra money to give him.
(b) She knows he is ill and she can use her medical expertise to assist him.
(c) She feels responsible for him because he is her son.
(d) She has to admit his need for her attracted her to him, and she wanted to help him.

3. What worry does Ava share on the web forum about her earlier life in Chapter 11?
(a) That having a surgery as a teenager may have ruined her fertility.
(b) That she may have ruined her fertility by eating too much junk food.
(c) That she may have been infertile in high school and college and not even known it.
(d) That her years as a drug user may have ruined her fertility.

4. Who runs the restaurant Don has started frequenting in Chapter 12?
(a) Jonnie and Mae.
(b) Frankie and Jonnie.
(c) Mae and Sylvia.
(d) Jonnie and Bronson.

5. How did Henry disappoint Carrie in Chapter 17?
(a) He did not marry her when he said he would.
(b) He did not giver her money he promised her.
(c) He did not show up to see Zeke when he said he would.
(d) He did not make her the table he said he would.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sylvia's mother Mabe try in hopes of enticing her husband to love her more?

2. Where does Sylvia meet JJ for the first time at the start of Chapter 10?

3. What does Carrie tell Henry in Chapter 17 that upsets him?

4. What is the acronym Ava uses to announce her news on the online forum in Chapter 14?

5. What is Carrie's son's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Apart from the people in the online chat room, who is the first person Ava tells she is pregnant in Chapter 15?

2. What problem has Ava been struggling with for years that becomes apparent in Chapter 3?

3. How does Sylvia feel about her son in-law, Henry?

4. How does Sylvia feel about JJ Ferguson?

5. How does Don feel about Jonnie's little girl, Sasha?

6. Where does Ava reveal the most personal details of her anguish over her infertility?

7. How does Ava react to seeing Henry's son for the first time when she comes across him in Walmart in Chapter 15?

8. What has happened to the town of Pinewood in recent years?

9. What area of her property does Sylvia devote special care and attention to?

10. What name does JJ tell Sylvia he goes by now in Chapter 10?

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