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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 does Lily suggest about Claude's recovery?
(a) He is moved to an apartment on the first floor.
(b) He comes and stays with Lily.
(c) He is taken to a facility to recuperate.
(d) A nurse is hired to live with him.

2. What does Lily tell Mookie as they walk to the mailbox together?
(a) "I know who you are."
(b) "You should go."
(c) "Keep your gun loaded."
(d) "Be careful."

3. What meeting is being held at the Golgotha Church?
(a) The black people in town are meeting about the flyers.
(b) The white people in town are meeting about the flyers.
(c) The town's prominent citizens are meeting about better police security.
(d) The town's leaders are meeting about the flyers.

4. How does Karen Kingsland die?
(a) She is beaten.
(b) She is shot in the head.
(c) She is drugged.
(d) She is stabbed.

5. What awakens Lily from her nightmare in Chapter Six?
(a) Gun shots.
(b) An intruder.
(c) The ringing of the phone.
(d) A voice outside her back door.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first speaks to Lily after the explosion?

2. Why does Karen Kingsland die?

3. What does Lily stay up to do after she takes care of Jack's wound?

4. What does the detective ask of Lily when he sees her in the hall of the hospital?

5. What does Lily realize about the men who were chasing Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What terrible event has happened to Lily and Jack in their pasts?

2. How does the intimacy between Lily and Jack affect her at the end of Chapter Six?

3. Why does Arnita Winthrop summon Lily to her home, and what transpires there?

4. What happens to Lily while she is at the Winthrop's to clean Beanie's closet?

5. Describe in detail Lily's thoughts and feelings after the explosion.

6. How does Lily handle the men who come to her door looking for Jack?

7. What do Lily and Carrie discuss when Lily goes to the clinic to clean?

8. What does the reader discover about Lily's past in Chapter Four, and what affect does it have on her relationships with men?

9. How does Howell react to Lily's presence in his home while it was broken into?

10. What part does Lanette Glass play in the meeting at Golgotha Church?

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