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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roz's parking space at her office read?
(a) Chief Executive Officer.
(b) Chairman of the Board.
(c) Roz.
(d) Ms. President.

2. Zenia makes what changes to Tony's appearance in Chapter 20?
(a) She makes Tony wear new age jewelry.
(b) She puts Tony in oversize clothes and oversize glasses.
(c) She gets Tony contact lenses.
(d) She makes Tony wear blue jeans and sneakers.

3. At the end of Chapter 1, from what does Zenia return?
(a) Jail.
(b) A trip to Paris.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The dead.

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

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

6. In Chapter 17, what does Tony have in her basement that she uses for a personal game?
(a) A flour & paste map on which she reenacts famous battles.
(b) A deck of Tarot cards.
(c) A pool table.
(d) A ping pong table.

7. Shanita is the owner of the shop where Charis works. What is she like?
(a) Rude and unpleasant.
(b) Warm and maternal.
(c) Sexy and seductive.
(d) Smart, practical and psychic.

8. In Chapter 18, whose ashes does Tony keep in a canister in her dormitory room closet?
(a) Her father's.
(b) Her mother's.
(c) Her grandmother's.
(d) Zenia's.

9. If Tony can understand the person she thinks is a puzzle and knot, what does she hope will happen?
(a) She will write a book about her experiences.
(b) She will bring emotional freedom to herself and others.
(c) She will prevent Zenia from returning.
(d) She will prevent West from leaving.

10. What is the name of the shop at which Charis works?
(a) La Magnifique.
(b) Crystal Palace.
(c) Luminessence.
(d) Radiance.

11. What color is Roz's bedroom at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Pink.

12. What domestic metaphor does Tony use in her lecture in Chapter 1?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Dusting.
(c) Weaving or knitting and sewing scissors.
(d) Vacuuming.

13. When Zenia asks Tony in Chapter 19 what her passion is, how does Tony respond?
(a) War.
(b) Money.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Men.

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

15. In Chapter 24, what does Tony think that she and Zenia have in common?
(a) They're both motherless war babies.
(b) They're both of Russian ancestry.
(c) They're both studying the history of war.
(d) They're both victims of sexual abuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Who taught Tony to make a cup of tea?

3. How does Anthea die in Chapter 23?

4. When Charis sees Zenia at Toxique in Chapter 10, what does she see swirling around Zenia?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what has been erased, bandaged over and deliberately snarled?

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