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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interests Tony more than births and deaths and marriages?
(a) Wars.
(b) Books.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Shopping.

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

3. 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.

4. The shop at which Charis works sells what kind of things?
(a) New age knickknacks.
(b) Books.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Shoes.

5. Who does Tony say in Chapter 1 "was a bad business, and should be left alone"?
(a) West.
(b) Zenia.
(c) Mitch.
(d) Roz.

6. What was Charis's name before she changed it to Charis?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Linda.
(c) Karen.
(d) Cassandra.

7. What is the weather like on the day Tony decides to use as the starting point for Zenia's story?
(a) Humid.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Bright and clear and unseasonably warm.
(d) Cold and snowy.

8. How many children does Roz have?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

10. Who does Tony describe in Chapter 1 as "a puzzle, a knot"?
(a) Roz.
(b) Charis.
(c) West.
(d) Zenia.

11. What does Zenia start borrowing from Tony in Chapter 25?
(a) Her car.
(b) Her textbooks.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Money.

12. In Chapter 1, what does Tony say comes unraveled if you "pick any strand and snip"?
(a) Zenia's love for West.
(b) History.
(c) Roz's knitting.
(d) Tony's life.

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

14. Who does Tony think would enjoy the contradictory images in her lecture in Chapter 1?
(a) Zenia.
(b) Billy.
(c) West.
(d) Roz.

15. In Chapter 15, what evidence tells Roz her son Larry has been to the Toxique?
(a) A Toxique matchbook in his shirt pocket.
(b) A credit card receipt from the Toxique in his wallet.
(c) A Toxique menu on his desk.
(d) Seeing him there when she lunches with Tony and Charis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roz do when she learns Zenia is still alive?

2. What does Tony tell Zenia about in Chapter 21 that she has never told anyone else about?

3. In Chapter 22, who was an English war bride?

4. What was McClung Hall before it became an office building?

5. What does West do when Zenia returns after he has married Tony?

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