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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 is the name of Serafina's daughter?
(a) Hana.
(b) Jill.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) Rosa.

2. What do the women beat Estelle with?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A whip.
(c) Her roses.
(d) A baseball bat.

3. What is the name of the priest?
(a) Father de Leo.
(b) Father de Niro.
(c) Father de Rio.
(d) Father Donald.

4. What is Estelle carrying a bouquet of?
(a) Coronations.
(b) Fox gloves.
(c) Roses.
(d) Blue bells.

5. What is Miss Yorke's job?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A secretary.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A dressmaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Serafina want Rosario's body cremated?

2. What does Peppina say Rosa was wearing when she turned to look at her?

3. Who did Rose want Peppina to call?

4. Where did Rose meet Jack?

5. What does Rosa say she is ashamed of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rosa break open the piggy bank?

2. What does Assunta say about Rosario's ashes?

3. Why does Serafina not want Bessie and Flora to bother her?

4. Why are the women gathered outside Serafina's house?

5. How did Serafina know she had conceived?

6. What do Bessie and Flora talk about that upsets Serafina?

7. Describe Alvaro.

8. How does Serafina try to tidy her mother up?

9. What does the doctor tell Father de Leo about Serafina?

10. What sound comes from the back of the cottage?

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