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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Maria playing on the lawn with the baby as Carter recalls in the beginning of the novel?
(a) She is tossing a ball to her.
(b) She is tossing water to her.
(c) She is blowing bubbles to her.
(d) She is picking dandelions for her.

2. When BZ comes over, what does Maria ask him about Carter that he doesn't want to answer because he wants him to finish his picture?
(a) How much money he has spent on his mistress.
(b) If the woman he is sleeping with is the star of the picture.
(c) Where he flew with his mistress to.
(d) Who the woman he is sleeping with is.

3. According to Maria, what did Carter do after she married him?
(a) Put her in his pictures.
(b) Bring her to the hospital.
(c) Write a book about her.
(d) Take her to Paris.

4. In the hospital, what does Maria try NOT to think about?
(a) Dead things and plumbing.
(b) Movies and red roses.
(c) Winter mornings and ice tea.
(d) The ocean and newspapers.

5. According to Maria, why shouldn't she have shown up at Freddy Chaikin's without calling?
(a) Because it was rude to show up without calling.
(b) Because her agent is too busy to see her.
(c) Because only people in trouble came unannounced to see their agents.
(d) Because only big stars were allowed to show up unannounced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does BZ tell Maria about an actress who was admitted to UCLA Neuropsychiatric?

2. What does the man who doesn't like artificial lemon juice at BZ and Helene's do for a living?

3. According to Maria, "_______always spoke on the telephone as if a spurious urgency could mask her radical lack of interest in talking to anyone."

4. Why does Maria tell BZ that Larry Kulik is going to die in a barber chair?

5. Who gives BZ and Helene money to stay married?

(see the answer key)

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