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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lucy wearing on her feet when she cleans up the water in the bathroom?
(a) Agatha's slippers.
(b) Sneakers.
(c) Danny's shoes.
(d) Her boots.

2. When Ian arrives home from college for Lucy's funeral, what does Bee do the first night he is home?
(a) Helps him take care of Daphne.
(b) Takes Agatha for a haircut.
(c) Makes a cake.
(d) Gives him Daphne and goes to bed.

3. Who tells Bee that she took a long walk with the children and tired herself out?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Cicely.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Agatha.

4. Who says, "It's the people who don't know the answers who are going to heaven, I tell you"?
(a) Gracie.
(b) Doug Bedloe.
(c) Mac McClintock.
(d) Mrs. Jordon.

5. What does Ian tell Claudia when they're in the kitchen lighting the candles on their father's birthday cake?
(a) That he wants to tell Danny that Daphne was not premature.
(b) That he's in trouble with the police.
(c) That he has a new job.
(d) That he's going to college.

6. How do the children at the Church Day Camp feel about Sister Audrey?
(a) Happy.
(b) Terrified.
(c) Despondent.
(d) Delighted.

7. Whom does Bee talk about to Doug on the car ride home after the picnic?
(a) Agatha.
(b) Danny.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Thomas.

8. What does Bee think her family has turned into now that Danny is gone?
(a) Organizers.
(b) Worriers.
(c) Religious zealots.
(d) Planners.

9. Who stays at Claudia's birthday party for only a few minutes before leaving with some friends from college?
(a) Ian.
(b) Billy.
(c) Cicely.
(d) Abby.

10. In Chapter One, who wears a pink barrette to meet her son from school?
(a) Bee.
(b) Abbie.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Lucy.

11. Who is born on Ian's birthday, January 2?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Daphne.
(c) Frances.
(d) Abby.

12. What does Claudia bake for her father's 59th birthday?
(a) A double chocolate cake.
(b) A coconut cake that looks like a bathmat.
(c) A raspberry pie.
(d) Brownies.

13. How old is Sister Audrey?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Teenager.
(c) Middle-aged.
(d) Thirty.

14. What does Doug think about being retired?
(a) He's so busy.
(b) He finds it boring.
(c) He has enough time to help with the children.
(d) He can finally plant a garden.

15. Why can't Bee take care of Lucy's children?
(a) She has arthritis.
(b) She has a broken arm.
(c) Lucy doesn't want her help.
(d) She lives too far away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daphne want to take to Day Camp as a toddler?

2. Whom does Doug notice on the roof, trying to pass a wire through a window?

3. Whom is Doug trying to locate to take care of Lucy's children?

4. Whom does Ian invite to the Church of the Second Chance's picnic?

5. Who is Ian's girlfriend since ninth grade?

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