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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. In Chapter 10, what is Shaunie celebrating?

2. Who does Alix get several emails from when she gets home from seeing Kelley?

3. What does Tamra do to try to help Alix at the end of Chapter 19?

4. What does Kelley suggest to Emira in Chapter 10?

5. Who is coming to dinner at Alix's for Thanksgiving?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 21, how does Alix feel when she gets back from New York City?

2. In Chapter 10, what does Kelley tell Emira to do when she calls him about her bad day?

3. What does Kelley tell Emira in his text message to her at Thanksgiving after discovering she works for Alix?

4. What important information does Kelley reveal at Thanksgiving about how he and Emira met?

5. What does Tamra advise Alix to do as far as communicating what she knows about Kelley to Emira?

6. In Chapter 19, what does Alix discover about Kelley from his Facebook page?

7. How does Emira come to believe that Kelley leaked the video?

8. What does Emira seem to think of Tamra's overtures to her about her hair at Thanksgiving?

9. Why does Alix want Emira to come to Thanksgiving dinner so badly?

10. In Chapter 20, why does Emira have such a great week with Briar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Why is Emira so annoyed with Alix when Alix opts to get Briar a new fish rather than to have a conversation with Briar about her old fish dying? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize Alix's feelings about Emira, and how do they change over the course of the novel? Why do her feelings toward Emira change?

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