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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Emira work besides at the Chamberlains' house?
2. Where is Emira when Mrs. Chamberlain calls her to take Briar late at night in Chapter 1?
3. Who films the encounter between Emira and the grocery store security guard?
4. Who is Alix's infant daughter?
5. What does Emira wear at work at the Chamberlains' house?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Alix tell Kelley she called the police on Robbier Cormier outside of her house in high school?
2. When does the reader realize that Alix and Kelley dated in high school?
3. How does Alix feel about her old housekeeper from her childhood, Claudette, and why?
4. Why do Alix and Peter move to Philadelphia?
5. What does Kelley say to Emira at dinner in Chapter 7 that really upsets her, but she does not show how upset she is?
6. How does Alix receive so much free merchandise?
7. How does Alix leverage her status as a working mother very deliberately and manipulatively in Part I?
8. Why is Alix attracted to Emira rather than to someone who knows and admires her own work when she is hiring a babysitter?
9. In Chapter 6, what gift does Alix give to Emira that has some significance to Emira?
10. In Chapter 7, what happens to Kelley and Emira at a basketball game that makes Emira like Kelley more?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Emira react to being caught in the middle of Kelley's and Alix's awkward reactions to meeting again after so long, and to each character's attempts to shape Emira's perception of the other? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
How does Reid use the incident with Emira, the older white woman, and the security guard in the grocery store in Part I to set the tone, and the reader's expectations, for the rest of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why is Alix so shocked to find out that Emira has been working for the Green Party for longer than she has been working for the Chamberlains? Why does Alix seem to know so little about Emira even though Emira has worked for the Chamberlains for a lengthy amount of time? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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