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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 Michele buy for the restaurant for the first time after the flood?
(a) A flute.
(b) A record player.
(c) A piano.
(d) A harp.

2. Who makes a globe mold for Ulysses?
(a) Michele.
(b) Henry.
(c) Ryan.
(d) Des.

3. What does Romy's father do for a living?
(a) Writer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Lawyer.

4. What does Des say he will bring to Florence?
(a) A bookcase.
(b) A submarine.
(c) A land rover and supplies.
(d) A truck full of seeing-eye dogs.

5. Why do Peg and Pete come to visit Cress?
(a) Paola has just died.
(b) Cress is sick.
(c) Ulysses has just died.
(d) Claude has just died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alys write well in Part III?

2. What does Evelyn's student give her as a gift in Part III?

3. Why is Cress worried for Peg?

4. Who tells Cress to tell the officer the reason he is speeding?

5. What makes Alys feel vulnerable in her relationship with Romy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Evelyn briefly meet in Florence?

2. Who does Alys end up meeting by chance in the train station in Florence who is connected to Evelyn?

3. What happens in Florence in Part IV that changes life there forever?

4. Where does Alys go the year she turns 17?

5. What does Massimo eventually share about himself with Ulysses and Cress?

6. What does Peg ask Ulysses in Part IV that indicates she still cares for him romantically?

7. How do Peg, Cress, Col, Pete, and Ulysses come into money again?

8. What gives Cress's life new vitality and meaning in Part III?

9. Why does Evelyn propose going to Florence with Dotty in Part III?

10. What does Ulysses do when he realizes Alys has met Evelyn?

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