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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 newspaper in which the story of Ellen's arrest appears?
(a) The Times
(b) The News
(c) The Herald
(d) The Tribune

2. What is Ellen's job in New York?
(a) Page designer
(b) Photographer
(c) Newspaper publisher
(d) Editorial assistant

3. What breaks the silence after the waiter takes their order?
(a) Another faculty member
(b) Falling pots and pans
(c) George's pager
(d) Ellen's cell phone

4. What does Kate say Brian would do as a child while she cooked?
(a) Stir flour and water together
(b) Read
(c) Plead for tastes
(d) Run away

5. What class had Ellen been in with her jailer?
(a) Literature
(b) Spanish
(c) English
(d) French

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kate's response to the opinion that her cancer might have been caused by her work in the dry cleaning shop?

2. What color is Ellen's room?

3. Where did Ellen's parents go after their marriage ceremony?

4. What does Kate say the book club will do after they complete the book they're working on?

5. Where does Ellen go with her brothers for ice cream?

Short Essay Questions

1. List at least three details Ellen recalls about the hospital where her mother was given chemotherapy.

2. What are Ellen's thoughts when she goes into her mother's room and sees that she's so emaciated.

3. What does Teresa say about Kate's bathing?

4. Briefly describe the conversation that occurs as Kate and her guests try to decide on a color scheme for decorating the Christmas trees?

5. What is Ellen's response when Dr. Cohn suggests that it's time to consider hospice or a hospital?

6. What does Ellen say about the way people greeted Ellen and Kate?

7. How does Ellen discover that her father is having an affair?

8. What questions does Ellen ask about the organization of the book club and what does Kate respond?

9. Describe Kate's role in the early days of her marriage to George.

10. What is the new arrangement Dr. Cohn says she's going to make for Kate and what is Ellen's reaction?

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