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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rare invitation does Mitch offer Roz at the end of Chapter 40?
(a) An invitation to lunch.
(b) An invitation to make love.
(c) An invitation to fly to Paris.
(d) An invitation to go sailing.

2. What do Zenia and her male companion seem to be doing when Zenia sees them at the beginning of Chapter 28?
(a) Making a financial transaction.
(b) Arguing.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Getting married.

3. What happens to Karen's inheritance from her grandmother?
(a) The bank loses it in poor investments.
(b) Her aunt and uncle steal it.
(c) Karen gets it at age 21.
(d) Her uncle doubles its worth through wise investments.

4. What reason does Zenia give Roz for Larry's visits to Zenia's hotel room?
(a) Larry is writing an article with Zenia.
(b) Larry is giving money to Zenia.
(c) Larry is working at the hotel.
(d) Larry is Zenia's cocaine dealer.

5. Which of these signs is not a reason Roz suspects Mitch is having another affair?
(a) Mitch has lipstick on his collar.
(b) Mitch uses aftershave on his groin.
(c) Mitch becomes more attentive to Roz.
(d) Mitch offers unasked for excuses for his behavior.

6. In Chapter 52, which of the following is not something Zenia claims has happened to Billy since he left Charis?
(a) He became a fat, bald LSD addict.
(b) He killed himself.
(c) He testified against his fellow conspirators.
(d) He got a full pardon and new identity.

7. In Chapter 50, what does Tony dream of?
(a) Her mother, an egg, the house burning and West leaving.
(b) Winning the lottery and moving to America.
(c) Going on a cruise with West.
(d) Flowers and fairies.

8. What does Harriet Bridges, the private detective, tell Roz about Larry in Chapter 52?
(a) He's been seen in Zenia's hotel room on a near-daily basis.
(b) He's gay.
(c) He's having an affair with Charis.
(d) He's on drugs.

9. In Chapter 52, Charis chooses what items as totems on her altar before confronting Zenia?
(a) A stick of incense and a lock of Zenia's hair.
(b) A good luck amulet and her deck of Tarot cards.
(c) Roz's leather gloves and a book written by Tony.
(d) A rosary and a white candle.

10. What reason does Zenia give for leaving Charis's home?
(a) She is moving to Seattle.
(b) She is moving in with a new boyfriend.
(c) She has finally saved enough money to get her own place.
(d) Billy, Charis's boyfriend, can't keep his hands off her.

11. Who is allowed to do what the boarders are not permitted to in Roz's mother's boarding house?
(a) Roz.
(b) Billy.
(c) Roz's father and his friends.
(d) West.

12. Who asserts herself inside Charis's mind again once Billy starts ignoring Charis in bed?
(a) Zenia.
(b) Karen's mother.
(c) Roz.
(d) Karen.

13. Who is the waitress who serves Roz and Mitch lunch in Chapter 41?
(a) Zenia.
(b) Charis.
(c) Tony.
(d) Anthea.

14. Who helps Charis when her baby is born at the end of Chapter 38?
(a) Billy.
(b) Tony and Roz.
(c) Aunt Vi.
(d) Zenia.

15. In Chapter 50, what does Charis see through Zenia's eyes in the astral realm?
(a) Billy looking like raw meat.
(b) The ferry to the island.
(c) Zenia's dead mother.
(d) Dead chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays for Zenia's funeral in Chapter 55?

2. In Chapter 55, what secret is revealed to Roz by Boyce and Larry?

3. For whom did Roz and her mother always have to keep the boarding house clean in Chapter 42?

4. Who does Zenia move in with in Chapter 47?

5. In Chapter 39, what does Roz recall that her twin daughters wanted every character in their storybooks to be when they were younger?

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