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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Much of what Daisy has left for her family is what?
(a) Property.
(b) Money.
(c) Clearly documented.
(d) A riddle.

2. Who does Joan think her mother is angry at?
(a) Beverly.
(b) The editor.
(c) Joan.
(d) The person who took over the column.

3. What is the name of Daisy's childhood housekeeper?
(a) Labina.
(b) Selma.
(c) Sabrina.
(d) Willimena.

4. What is the newspaper editor's last name?
(a) Dudley.
(b) Doohan.
(c) Dewey.
(d) Downey.

5. Chapter 8 begins with Daisy at what age?
(a) 72.
(b) 62.
(c) 82.
(d) 92.

6. Victoria invites Daisy to go with her and her professor to where?
(a) The Orkney Islands.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Kansas.

7. Who has died, in chapter 6, besides Barker?
(a) Cuyler.
(b) Daisy.
(c) Warren.
(d) Magnus.

8. How many years does chapter 6 span?
(a) 1.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

9. Daisy makes several inappropriate what?
(a) Jokes.
(b) Sexual advances.
(c) Comments.
(d) Hand gestures.

10. Daisy leaves the telling of this chapter with the notion that this time of what could go on for some time?
(a) Reflecting.
(b) Reconciling.
(c) Declining.
(d) Recovering.

11. As he is dying, Cuyler decides to stop building what?
(a) Skyscraper.
(b) A pyramid.
(c) A dome.
(d) A castle.

12. Which one of Daisy's children is the middle child?
(a) There is no middle child because Daisy has an even number of children.
(b) Alice.
(c) Warren.
(d) Joan.

13. Who has twins in chapter 9?
(a) Joan.
(b) Alice.
(c) Victoria.
(d) Warren.

14. Before she dies, Daisy spends hours doing what?
(a) Rambling about nothing in particular.
(b) Foretelling what will happen after her death.
(c) Explaining her history to her children.
(d) Apologizing to friends and family.

15. Daisy will be taking her first trip to Europe since what?
(a) Her mother's death.
(b) Her honeymoon.
(c) Her son's death.
(d) Her father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Daisy foresees that her children will make certain inferences based on what?

2. Who owns the hotel?

3. Who was haunted by Daisy's birth until they died, according to chapter 7?

4. There are multiple death notices and what offered as possibilities?

5. The housekeeper says she has known for years that Daisy could never do what?

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