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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 40 - 60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Helene, who are the people BZ's mother Carlotta "can't bear"?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Irish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Germans.

2. Before Maria can have the abortion, what does the doctor want to know, according to the man she speaks with on the phone?
(a) How many weeks she is pregnant.
(b) How old she is.
(c) If this is her first pregnancy.
(d) If this is her first abortion.

3. In the elevator of Freddy Chaikin's office, who tells Maria, "The word on Carter's dailies is sensational"?
(a) Freddy.
(b) BZ.
(c) An agent.
(d) An actor.

4. What is Maria consumed by after her mother's death when she lived in New York?
(a) Questions about what her mother was doing, thinking.
(b) Questions about working, saving for retirement.
(c) Questions about the universe, the nature of death.
(d) Questions about what her father was doing, where he was.

5. What happens at the end of the first picture Carter made with Maria?
(a) She is cleaning marijuana with a kitchen strainer.
(b) She is crying on the IRT.
(c) She is arguing on the telephone.
(d) She is thrown into negative and looks dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carter has done a film that Maria has not seen. It is entered in what film festival?

2. According to Helene, who was "shuttling them in and out of that motel like the dailies"?

3. What does a columnist from the trades call to ask Maria?

4. On the day of the hearing, Helene shows Maria a ring that was a gift from whom?

5. Who spits into the phone, saying to Maria, "You want to know what I think of your life"?

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