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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Olivia say her mother had always been the expert in?
(a) Family troubles.
(b) Difficult children.
(c) Film.
(d) Comedy.

2. What word does Jean think she hears the green man mutter?
(a) Blimey.
(b) Hell.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Gawd.

3. What does Miriam say Olivia takes the pleasure out of on the way to the abortion clinic?
(a) Blackness.
(b) Petty cruelty.
(c) Artlessness.
(d) Sarcasm.

4. What room does Martin peer into?
(a) The sitting room.
(b) The bedroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The dining room.

5. What does Barbara choose between every day?
(a) The devil and Jesus.
(b) Her car and public transport.
(c) The devil and the deep blue sea.
(d) Her work and her homelife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Olivia say her mother labeled her in?

2. What is Kenneth's goal?

3. What does Jean need a repairman to repair?

4. What does Barbara say they do with Ardley when she gets back to Maidstone?

5. What kind of take-out does Chris buy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miriam know about the night of Kenneth's death?

2. Why does Olivia say that on the outside her mother had an admirable social conscience?

3. What does Flo say in her phone message to Havers?

4. What problems is Lynley having in this section?

5. What problems does Jean have with her son Jimmy at the beginning of this section?

6. How does Jean react to seeing Ken's dead body?

7. How did Olivia meet Richie?

8. How does Olivia upset her parents when she runs into them on the street?

9. What does Olivia remember about her mother's relationship with Kenneth?

10. How do the girls at the cafe decide who fetches a repair man?

(see the answer keys)

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