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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Carter, who besides him, Maria, and the possible father, does NOT know about the affair?
(a) Maria's sister.
(b) The wife of Maria's uncle.
(c) Carter's sister.
(d) The wife of the possible father.

2. After learning of her mother's death, what did Maria do for a month?
(a) Drink.
(b) Not work.
(c) Cry.
(d) Sleep.

3. According to Maria, what was "something no one in the city liked to be near"?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Success.

4. What season is it when Carter stops living in the house in Beverly Hills?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Maria's father's business partner?

2. According to Helene, who are the people BZ's mother Carlotta "can't bear"?

3. What type of bird does Maria watch at the hospital as the novel opens?

4. Maria claimed she was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be _____ than what went out on the last.

5. What object does Maria later try to remember if the doctor took with him when he left the bedroom?

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