2. What does Kate need when she calls for Ellen on pages 162?
(a) Help getting out of the tub
(b) More medicine
(c) Company
(d) Help reading a phone number

3. What does Kate eat on the last afternoon of her life?
(a) Mashed potatoes
(b) Nothing
(c) Tomato soup
(d) A scrambled egg

4. What does Ellen buy hoping her mother will continue to read?
(a) A magnifying glass
(b) A large-print edition
(c) A different book
(d) An audio book

5. What is on the shirt Kate wears to the Christmas tree lighting ceremony?
(a) Reindeer
(b) A Christmas tree
(c) Santa
(d) Elves

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ellen meet Jeff after she's released from Jail?

2. Why does Kate say she read the books she and Ellen read as a "book club?"

3. Why does Kate say Ellen should not have a flower girl at her wedding?

4. Why does Ellen say she buys flowers?

5. Who is decorating the tree next to Kate's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jeff say about Brian's problems at college and what is Ellen's response?

2. What does Ellen say when Jeff asks if hallucinations are a side-effect of Kate's medication?

3. What does Ellen do when she and Jeff go to the cemetery?

4. What happened to ruin Kate's evening out with George?

5. What changes on the day when Kate calls for Ellen to help her out of the tub?

6. What does Ellen think about when Jeff asks if she has a message for Jon? What is her message?

7. What is Jon's role in Ellen's arrest?

8. Kate begins to try to give Ellen advice about her wedding but Ellen stops her. What is Kate's reaction?

9. What are Ellen's theories about why Mrs. Duane and Kate don't talk about men while they're having lunch together?

10. Why does Ellen say that no one acknowledges the ribbons on her mother's wheelchair wheels?

(see the answer keys)

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