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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 Rachel's brother's profession?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Salesperson.

2. When Rachel's mother caught her praying one day in her youth, what did she tell Rachel not to do?
(a) She told her she loved to listen to her daughter pray.
(b) She told her not to kneel because Jews do not kneel.
(c) She told her that praying was a waste of time.
(d) She told her to stop praying altogether.

3. One night, after getting up to use the bathroom, what did Rachel witness Nadia was doing for her brother?
(a) Making him baked goods.
(b) Crying.
(c) Shopping for his groceries.
(d) Praying.

4. After Frankie gives birth and almost dies, what animal does she hallucinate seeing in the hospital?
(a) A lizard.
(b) A hummingbird.
(c) A crocodile.
(d) A flamingo.

5. What organization does Bud's father belong to?
(a) The Republican's for Freedom Society.
(b) John Maple Society.
(c) The Garden and Horticultural Society.
(d) John Birch Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion is Rachel's brother interested in learning about?

2. To which city in the Philippines does Angelica take Bud for Christmas?

3. When Rachel and her brother are in his new apartment discussing traveling to Cambodia, what does Rachel say nobody thinks of now as a human right?

4. Before getting sick, why did Rachel's brother believe online reading was important?

5. What does Apsara's name mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. By the end of Chapter 4, how does Rachel feel about her brother moving back in with Kirk and now Ethan?

2. When Bud goes to his late father's house with his siblings, what does he give up?

3. How does Rachel describe the personality of the nickname "Sister Susie," which Kirk fondly calls her?

4. How does Tara describe her childhood upbringing in Kathmandu?

5. Rachel describes her brother as "a total pill." How does Saul's illness affect his character?

6. When Bud brings a date, Phoebe, to his sister's wedding, what does she say to his family?

7. How does Tara describe her parents' relationship with money?

8. What does Tara's father, Matthew, do for a living once in Kathmandu?

9. After his medical treatments, what does Saul do when he arrives back home?

10. When Frankie first meets Matthew, what does he tell her he wants to do?

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