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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Irene plan to tell Clare when she responds to her letter?

2. What do Irene and Brian agree on about Clare?

3. Who talked Brian out of moving to Brazil?

4. Where is Irene seated at the hotel?

5. Irene thinks the woman who sits near her at the hotel looks _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is some background information about the author?

2. When did Clare disappear from the Chicago neighborhood where she and Irene lived?

3. How does Brian respond to Irene's concerns about Junior?

4. Who interrupts Irene when she is reading Clare's letter? What did the letter keep her from doing?

5. What name does John Bellew, Clare's husband, call his wife? Why?

6. Whom else did Clare invite along when she meets Irene? What do Clare and the other guest have in common?

7. Where does Irene ask Brian to drive her to? What business does she intend to take care of?

8. What do Irene and Brian discuss on the way to the printer's business?

9. How does Irene react to John Bellew's cruel words?

10. What made it easy for Clare to pass as white?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize Part 3, Chapters 3 and 4 which are the concluding chapters of the book.

a) How does Irene feel when she runs into John?

b) What does she regret not telling him?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the rationalization Irene uses to come to grips with Brian's affair. Why does she think Clare will never leave John?

Essay Topic 3

Describe what drives Irene to murder Clare.

a) What role does John have in deepening Irene's fears about losing her husband?

b) Why is it easier for Brian to think that John killed Clare?

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