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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 is one diagnosis Laura receives?
(a) Borderline Personality Disorder.
(b) Harper's Sundrome.
(c) Fallington's Syndrome.
(d) Lillington's Disorder.

2. Between which years did the number of U.S. Social Security disability claims rise?
(a) 2003 and 2009.
(b) 2010 and 2015.
(c) 1990 and 2000.
(d) 1987 and 2007.

3. What journal does Edgar Allen Poe once edit?
(a) The Scalawag Times.
(b) The Harlot.
(c) The Harlequin.
(d) The Southern Literary Messenger.

4. Where does Laura grow up?
(a) Hyde Park.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Herbertsville.
(d) Greenwich.

5. Who kills her children in 1998?
(a) Farican Marshall.
(b) Khoua Her.
(c) Micheline Romard.
(d) Helia Hendry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the shelter for the mentally ill in Erwadi?

2. Where do Bhargavi and her daughter move in 1999?

3. Where is Naomi taken after jumping off the bridge?

4. Where does Laura spend Thanksgiving the year she is 25?

5. How many siblings does Naomi have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship do Nandini and Bapu have?

2. What tragedy does Bhargavi suffer in her young adult life?

3. How do other prison inmates treat Naomi?

4. What is one reason Naomi and her siblings and mother move a lot when she is young?

5. What does Bhargavi eventually begin to feel in her proximity to death?

6. What do Laura's first doctors start her down the path of in Part IV?

7. What had Naomi always felt was incompatible with being a Black woman?

8. What does Naomi do after being in "segregation" for a while?

9. What does Naomi know about the circumstances of her own birth?

10. What does Laura Delano think of herself when Aviv first introduces her in Part IV?

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