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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was McClung Hall before it became an office building?
(a) A candle shop.
(b) A men's residence hall.
(c) A women's residence hall.
(d) A new age store.

2. What does Tony tell Zenia about in Chapter 21 that she has never told anyone else about?
(a) Her love for a history professor.
(b) Her fear of failing out of college.
(c) Her mother and her childhood.
(d) Her need for money.

3. What is Tony's profession?
(a) Historian.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Psychologist.
(d) Writer.

4. What evidence tells Tony that West knows about Zenia's death?
(a) West's attendance at Zenia's memorial service.
(b) A hole in the newspaper where he cut out Zenia's death notice.
(c) The phone call Tony overhears between West and Billy.
(d) West's weeping.

5. Which of the following is not true about the tale Zenia tells Tony of her own mother and childhood?
(a) Zenia's mother was a famous pianist.
(b) Zenia's mother was a White Russian living in Paris.
(c) Zenia's mother died of tuberculosis.
(d) Zenia's mother rented Zenia out as a prostitute.

6. Who reverses words and thinks and writes them backwards?
(a) Roz.
(b) West.
(c) Zenia.
(d) Tony.

7. In Chapter 9, what does Shanita tell Charis that the stopping of Charis's pendulum signifies?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) A new romance is in Charis's future.
(c) It's a warning, a bad omen.
(d) Good luck.

8. When Charis sees Zenia at Toxique in Chapter 10, what does she see swirling around Zenia?
(a) A beautiful red silk scarf.
(b) A dark, malevolent aura.
(c) A calm, peaceful aura.
(d) An aura of prosperity and joy.

9. Who says in Chapter 1 that "A disaster is a disaster; those hurt by it remain hurt, those killed remain killed, the rubble remains rubble"?
(a) Billy.
(b) Mitch.
(c) Tony.
(d) Zenia.

10. What does Tony say in Chapter 1 that Zenia both enjoyed and created?
(a) Joy.
(b) Peace.
(c) Prosperity.
(d) Turbulence.

11. What nickname does Tony's mother, Anthea, give Tony as an infant?
(a) Honey.
(b) Baby.
(c) Sweetkins.
(d) Guppy.

12. What is West's profession?
(a) He is a car salesman.
(b) He is a minister.
(c) He is a poet.
(d) He is a musicologist.

13. At the end of Chapter 1, where does Tony have lunch?
(a) A park bench in downtown Toronto.
(b) A New York City deli.
(c) The Toxique.
(d) A Mexican restaurant called El Dominguez.

14. What unethical thing does Zenia ask Tony to do for her in Chapter 25?
(a) Cheat on an exam.
(b) Write a term paper for her.
(c) Forge a check.
(d) Lie about Roz to the other girls in McClunt Hall.

15. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what has been erased, bandaged over and deliberately snarled?
(a) Zenia's accounts of herself.
(b) Tony's career.
(c) Roz's marriage to Mitch.
(d) Tony's marriage to West.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Charis's pendulum do when she asks it if she will have a good day?

2. Who is the narrator in the first chapter of "The Robber Bride"?

3. At the end of Chapter 27, who does Tony want to protect from Zenia?

4. What was Charis's name before she changed it to Charis?

5. In Chapter 24, what does Tony think that she and Zenia have in common?

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