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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the television show Maria lands a guest-star appearance in?
(a) Interstate 80.
(b) Interstate 5.
(c) Interstate 15.
(d) Interstate 405.

2. How does BZ die at the end of the novel?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He gets cancer.
(c) Maria kills him.
(d) Carter kills him.

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

4. According to Helene, who was "shuttling them in and out of that motel like the dailies"?
(a) Les.
(b) Maria.
(c) Carter.
(d) BZ.

5. Carter has done a film that Maria has not seen. It is entered in what film festival?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Cannes.
(c) New York.
(d) Edinburgh International.

6. 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.

7. What is the charge at Maria and Carter's divorce hearing that is uncontested?
(a) Mental cruelty.
(b) Emotional alienation.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Loss of income.

8. What does Larry Kulik tell Maria he's been hearing about her?
(a) That she's terrific in the show.
(b) That she's having an affair.
(c) That she's ready for the nuthouse.
(d) That she had an abortion.

9. What does Larry Kulik invite Maria to do at his place?
(a) Smoke pot.
(b) Use the sauna.
(c) Swim in the pool.
(d) Attend his party.

10. In Vegas, when Maria sleeps with an actor who doesn't know who she is, what does he tell her when they are in bed?
(a) "Don't move."
(b) "Kiss me."
(c) "I love you."
(d) "I know you."

11. 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 beat up.
(b) She got in a car accident.
(c) She got kicked by a horse.
(d) She fell.

12. During Christmas dinner, what gift from Felicia does Kate smash against the mirror?
(a) A doll.
(b) A train.
(c) A ball.
(d) A music box.

13. After running into Carter unexpectedly on the street in Beverly Hills, what does Maria imagine in the water that are "translucent as jellyfish"?
(a) Appendages.
(b) Fetuses.
(c) Film.
(d) Toys.

14. In her dreams, where are the "hacked pieces of human flesh" found?
(a) In the pool.
(b) In the pipes.
(c) In the film.
(d) In the crib.

15. Who at Christmas dinner is "preternaturally attuned to the threat of voices not even raised"?
(a) Kate.
(b) BZ.
(c) Les.
(d) Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Maria unable to reach Benny Austin when she goes to Vegas?

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

3. When Maria runs into Freddy Chaikin at Caesar's, how long does Maria tell him she's been in Vegas?

4. As she waits at Ralph's Market snack counter, Maria thinks the line suggests that the norm was to have _______, ________, and _______.

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

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