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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. How does Patty Jane decide on the topic of the lectures she will hold at her business?
(a) By opening an encyclopedia to a random page.
(b) By seeing what is being talked about in the newspaper.
(c) She lets the customers decide the topics.
(d) She lets Nora decide.

2. What does Ione send to the people at House of Curl while she is on vacation?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Souvenir pens.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Newspaper clippings.

3. What shocks the women during the first lecture in Chapter 12?
(a) That the speaker tells them about her experiences abroad.
(b) An argument between the speaker and one of the women.
(c) The speaker's honesty.
(d) Nudity.

4. What is Harriet sick with?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Liver disease.
(d) A brain tumor.

5. How do Patty Jane and Clyde find themselves rolling in the snow in Chapter 13?
(a) They are playing with Nora.
(b) They slide down some icy steps.
(c) They fall while walking across a field.
(d) The jump behind a snow bank to avoid being seen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Harriet see in the bar with the crazy woman in Chapter 21?

2. What does Reese arrange for Harriet in Chapter 19?

3. What is Patty Jane unable to understand about Clyde's sculptures?

4. What gift does Ione give Harriet in Chapter 25?

5. What do Patty Jane and Ione think Harriet has done in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what does Patty Jane begin to dwell on as Harriet's absence draws out? Who does Patty Jane turn to for comfort?

2. What business does Patty Jane start in Chapter 11?

3. What does Patty Jane discover one day when she returns home in Chapter 11? Why are Patty Jane and Ione especially worried?

4. How does Nora deal with her father's reappearance?

5. Where does Harriet awake in Chapter 17? How does she figure out how she got to this place? What does Harriet realize when she looks at the newspaper?

6. What happens to Harriet while she is riding on a bus in Chapter 14? Where does Harriet go afterward?

7. Describe Reese and Harriet's wedding in Chapter 24.

8. In Chapter 13, why does Clyde insist he and Patty Jane cannot have a relationship?

9. What does Patty Jane attend in Chapter 18? What does she find incomprehensible about the event?

10. What spurs Patty Jane to begin looking for a job? What trouble does she run into?

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