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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first time Maria meets BZ at his house, BZ tells Carter, "The rough cut looked fantastic, except you're missing the ________."
(a) Story.
(b) Lighting.
(c) Star.
(d) Action.

2. When Carter and Helene ask Maria questions at Neuropsychiatric, what three things does she answer about her plans for the future?
(a) Get Kate; live with Kate and Carter; do some canning.
(b) Get Carter; live with Kate and Carter; do some gardening.
(c) Get Kate; live with Kate alone; do some canning.
(d) Get Kate; live with Kate alone; do some gardening.

3. How does Maria get home from Vegas after being arrested?
(a) She flies back on a Lear jet.
(b) She takes the train back.
(c) She hitchhikes back.
(d) She drives back in a convertible.

4. Maria recalls working with a girl in Ocho Rios who had just had an abortion in what city where it was hard to get one because of arrests?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

5. In Maria's dreams of a shadowy syndicate, what does her contact want her to supply information about?
(a) The problem of parenting.
(b) The condition of the plumbing.
(c) The location of the film.
(d) The state of the union.

6. What happens to Susannah Wood three weeks after they've been in the desert so that Carter had to shoot around her bruise?
(a) She got in a car accident.
(b) She got beat up.
(c) She got kicked by a horse.
(d) She fell.

7. When Maria runs into Benny Austin at the casino, he tells her, the course of true love is never a straight ______.
(a) Line.
(b) Flush.
(c) Arrow.
(d) Path.

8. On the day of the hearing, Helene shows Maria a ring that was a gift from whom?
(a) Carlotta.
(b) Carter.
(c) Les.
(d) BZ.

9. The first time Maria sees Carter after the divorce hearing, what does he mean when he tells her, "Don't get into that"?
(a) He means that she shouldn't do pornography.
(b) He means that she shouldn't do drugs.
(c) He means that she shouldn't sleep with BZ.
(d) He means that she shouldn't starve herself.

10. At three in the morning in the desert, when Maria asks Carter, "Why do you fight," what does he say?
(a) "To find out if you're alive."
(b) "To see if you love me."
(c) "Because you fight back."
(d) "Because I hate you."

11. Why does Maria feel a rush of shame when she tells Benny Austin to come see her in Los Angeles?
(a) Because Maria never goes to Los Angeles.
(b) Because she would not see him if he came.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Because Benny never goes to Los Angeles.

12. What is Maria waiting for at the Ralph's Market snack counter?
(a) To eat lunch.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Les Goodwin.
(d) To use the pay phone.

13. When Maria comes home and finds Ivan Costello drunk in her house and she tells him "No", how does he respond?
(a) "Fine. I'll come back when you're ready."
(b) "Fight me. You'll like it better that way anyway."
(c) "Fine. I'm not coming back again for you."
(d) "Fight me. I like it better that way anyway."

14. Who sends Maria two dozen roses when she returns home after being arrested in Vegas?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Freddy Chaikin.
(c) Benny Austin.
(d) The actor whose property she stole.

15. Who tells Maria, "You're lying in water and it's warm and you hear your mother's voice"?
(a) The astrologer.
(b) The hypnotist.
(c) The director.
(d) The psychiatrist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who at Christmas dinner is "preternaturally attuned to the threat of voices not even raised"?

2. What does Benny Austin tell Maria about her mother's health the last time she ever saw her?

3. According to Helene, what did the Guatemalan from the employment agency steal from Maria?

4. Why does Helene have a bruise on her cheek the night after Maria drank too much?

5. According to Freddy Chaikin, what is the best medicine for things wrong in the private life department?

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