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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29 - 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Maria want to talk to the night she sleeps with a bottle of gin by her bed because the pain medication isn't working?
(a) Helene.
(b) Les Goodwin.
(c) Carter.
(d) Her mother.

2. What does BZ do with the first picture that Carter made with Maria that she doesn't like?
(a) He runs it often.
(b) He destroys it.
(c) He sells it.
(d) He seldom runs it.

3. How many days does Maria realize she has not been bleeding?
(a) Fifty one.
(b) Ten.
(c) Ninety.
(d) Twenty five.

4. According to Carter, when Maria responds to his statement about dining out, who continues to look directly at her?
(a) Helene.
(b) No one.
(c) BZ.
(d) Carter.

5. What kind of stories leap out at Maria from the newspaper so that she can no longer read it?
(a) Stories involving dead actresses.
(b) Stories involving natural disasters.
(c) Stories involving children in peril.
(d) Stories involving working mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Helene, what is Maria's manner like when she sees her by the swimming pool at the hospital as the novel opens?

2. What object does Maria keep in her makeup box that she is careful not to examine?

3. In her dreams, where are the "hacked pieces of human flesh" found?

4. What does Larry Kulik tell Maria he's been hearing about her?

5. Why does Maria prefer the studio cut of the second picture Carter made with her?

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