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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 interests Tony more than births and deaths and marriages?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Books.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Wars.
2. When Charis sees Zenia at Toxique in Chapter 10, what does she see swirling around Zenia?
(a) An aura of prosperity and joy.
(b) A beautiful red silk scarf.
(c) A calm, peaceful aura.
(d) A dark, malevolent aura.
3. Who reverses words and thinks and writes them backwards?
(a) Zenia.
(b) Tony.
(c) West.
(d) Roz.
4. Zenia makes what changes to Tony's appearance in Chapter 20?
(a) She makes Tony wear new age jewelry.
(b) She makes Tony wear blue jeans and sneakers.
(c) She gets Tony contact lenses.
(d) She puts Tony in oversize clothes and oversize glasses.
5. After Zenia leaves him in Chapter 26, to whom does West turn for comfort and eventually marry?
(a) Tony.
(b) Augusta.
(c) Charis.
(d) Roz.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the first line of the book, when does the narrator say the story of Zenia ought to begin?
2. In Chapter 3, Tony recalls that Zenia's memorial service was held how long ago?
3. In Chapter 8, for whom does Charis mistake her daughter Augusta when she appears unexpectedly at Charis's back door?
4. What date does Tony decide to use as the starting point for Zenia's story?
5. In Chapter 1, what is the topic of what Tony describes as one of her more convoluted lectures?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the significance of Tony's lace-edged collars being mentioned in Chapter 1 alongside a mention of Tony's interest in wars.
2. Describe Tony's sand table and the game she plays on it.
3. What is Charis's relationship with her daughter, Augusta?
4. Explain Charis's psychic abilities.
5. Describe Radiance.
6. Describe Tony's relationship with West during her undergraduate days at McClung Hall.
7. Why isn't Tony sure which of Zenia's accounts of herself are true?
8. In Chapter 1, what does Tony's statement that the place where Zenia began must have been "someplace bruised, and very tangled" indicate about Zenia's character?
9. Explain Roz's relationship with Boyce.
10. In Chapter 1, what does Tony teacher her students that history is?
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