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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. After Bud runs away, he returns home. What do his parents threaten him with?
(a) Sending him to an uncle in Tennessee.
(b) Sending him to live with his brother.
(c) Cutting off his weekly allowance.
(d) Locking him in his room at night.

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

3. Where is Bud when he learns his father has died?
(a) A restaurant in Udon Thani.
(b) A post office in Udon Thani.
(c) A bar in Manila.
(d) A hotel in Chiang Mai.

4. What does Quinn, Frankie's boyfriend after Gil, see that is unique about Frankie's job as a doctor's office receptionist?
(a) She has a perfect view of the safe in the office.
(b) She is well positioned to steal pharmaceutical drugs.
(c) She works late and sees how the doors are specially locked and unlocked.
(d) She comes in early and has the office to herself most mornings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At his late father's house, what does Bud say to his brother, Dillion, he knows more about than anything?

2. With whom does Frankie leave for London after she quits her job at the doctor's office?

3. What does Lizzie, Sally's sister's best friend, have waiting at her apartment after picking up Bud from the train station?

4. What are Bud and Will, his one childhood friend, obsessed with in school?

5. What is Tara named after?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bud runs away from home for the first time?

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

3. What does Saul tell Rachel is one reason why Kirk wants them to break up after Saul is diagnosed with cancer?

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

5. When Frankie quits her job at the doctor's office, how does her then boyfriend, Quinn, react?

6. Why does Frankie, Tara's mother, turn down Gil's marriage proposal when they are 19?

7. What does Tara's former boyfriend, whom she dates in her 20s, tell her about money?

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

9. What story does Bud tell Lizzie and her roommates after he runs away to her apartment?

10. How does Rachel react to the news that her brother's boyfriend, Kirk, is making him leave his apartment?

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