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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 awakens Lizabeth after the dinner at which Jason spills his milk?
(a) A barking dog.
(b) Someone repeatedly honking the horn.
(c) Someone throwing pebbles at the window.
(d) It isn't specified in the text.

2. What job does Matt give to Lizabeth when he goes up on the roof?
(a) Holding the ladder.
(b) Holding his hat.
(c) Holding his toolbox.
(d) Holding his hand.

3. What does Matt do in response to the intruder returning in Chapter 5?
(a) Moves into Lizabeth's house.
(b) Installs a security system in Lizabeth's house.
(c) Tries to install floodlights at Lizabeth's house.
(d) Buys a guard dog for Lizabeth.

4. What happens to Matt's business partner?
(a) He is in a car accident and is in traction in the hospital.
(b) He runs off to Mexico with Matt's wife.
(c) He falls off of his kid's skateboard and breaks his hip.
(d) He falls off of his roof and breaks his leg.

5. Lizabeth tells Matt that she needs time to assert her independence. How much time does she tell him she needs?
(a) She says she doesn't know.
(b) A year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose driveway does the intruder go into?

2. What is the name of the officer who responds to Lizabeth's first call for assistance?

3. How old are Lizabeth's children?

4. Matt reveals to Lizabeth that he has an incurable disease. What disease does he say he has?

5. What is the name of the man who inappropriately gropes Lizabeth in her first days at the job site?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lizabeth end up falling in wet cement at the construction site?

2. How does Matt attempt to keep Lizabeth's mind off of her boys being gone?

3. What is Matt's reaction to Lizabeth's forwardness at the construction site in Chapter 1? What does she think his reaction means?

4. Elsie's first impression of Lizabeth's house when she drives up is that Lizabeth still doesn't let reality interfere with her imagination. What is meant by this statement?

5. Comic relief is almost necessary in such a tension-charged novel. Describe the scene at the dinner table in Chapter 3.

6. What does the Elsie's Cadillac symbolize in the story?

7. Matt and Lizabeth discuss the flasher and his MO after his second appearance. As they try to figure out who he is, they come up with a couple hypotheses. What do they surmise about the flasher during this discussion?

8. What secret does Matt share with Lizabeth after their intimate moment in the bathroom they are restoring, and how does Lizabeth react to his revelation?

9. What does Elsie's character add to the novel? How would it be different without her?

10. During a particularly bad rainstorm, Matt convinces Lizabeth to dance like a fairy on a board positioned above a mud puddle. How does Lizabeth feel about this rain dance, and what does it symbolize to her?

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