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Diana Evans
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Ordinary People: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Diana Evans
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who is Damian's father?
(a) James.
(b) Billy.
(c) Laurence.
(d) Marlon.

2. How long have Michael and Melissa been a couple in Chapter 3?
(a) 13 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 16 years.

3. Who runs the class that Melissa takes Blake to in Chapter 5?
(a) Chun Song Li.
(b) Mrs. Burke.
(c) Marie Micheline.
(d) Angelina Barundi.

4. What does Michael do in the end of Chapter 5 that annoys Melissa greatly?
(a) Walks out when she is still talking to him.
(b) Asks her to pick up his dry cleaning for him.
(c) Berates her for not doing the laundry.
(d) Takes out his phone and looks at it while talking to her.

5. What kind of birth experience does Melissa want to have for her second child?
(a) A water birth.
(b) A surgical birth.
(c) A birth with as many painkillers as possible.
(d) A VBAC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rachel's father once a national sports player?

2. What does the exterminator tell Melissa people always comment on?

3. What does Melissa tell Michael to take care of at the end of Chapter 5?

4. What does the performer in Chapter 7 tell the concertgoers that seems like a bad omen for Michael and Melissa?

5. What is the name of the cosmetics shop Melissa and Hazel go to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a large source of problems in Damian's and Stephanie's relationship?

2. What is the short poem that begins the novel about, and who wrote it?

3. Why had Michael's relationship with Gillian not worked out?

4. What does Melissa do with Blake in Chapter 5 that she absolutely hates?

5. When do both Michael and Melissa realize their date is a total disaster in Chapter 7?

6. How do Melissa and Michael know the Wiley brothers?

7. What does Hazel offer for Melissa in order to try to help her and Michael?

8. What large project does the former occupant of Melissa and Michael's house undertake just before his marriage falls apart?

9. Why is Michael so late to his engagement with Ria in Chapter 6?

10. What does Michael find himself doing that he knows is a bad idea at the end of Chapter 4 because he is frustrated and lonely?

(see the answer keys)

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