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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 not one of the things Professor Dipple and Cilla Whitney ask Viv when she wants to leave school?
(a) Are you transferring
(b) Are you pregnant
(c) Are you planning to get pregnant
(d) Are you using birth control

2. What are the women taking to the hospice center?
(a) Christmas stockings
(b) Christmas ornaments
(c) Christmas music CDs
(d) Christmas cookies

3. Which of the women leads the group into a new creative phase?
(a) Mimi
(b) Canoe
(c) Judy
(d) Viv

4. What is the creative outlet for the women?
(a) Nude modeling
(b) Craft classes
(c) Sewing
(d) Gardening

5. Canoe notes that ___________ are especially frightened by the hounds.
(a) children
(b) squirrels
(c) geese
(d) rabbits

Short Answer Questions

1. With all the women, the beginning of the end came ____________________________.

2. What had been Viv's true ambition?

3. Who tried to escape the alcohol treatment center?

4. What color is the Christmas tree the women put up at the hospice?

5. How did her mentors learn that Viv was leaving school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the popular child-rearing expert whose advice the women closely follow?

2. What do the women mean about the beginning of the end?

3. What is the setting for this section?

4. What do the girls and women do after they have had sandwiches and cake?

5. How do Judy's friends integrate and make themselves welcome with the other hospice guests?

6. Explain the metaphor of the fox and the foxhunt.

7. Why does the photographer leave and then return?

8. What is the main entertainment at the birthday party?

9. How does Louise's photo shoot come to an end?

10. Why are the women meeting at the hospice?

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