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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Suzanne find Matt Harrison the next day?
(a) At the beach again.
(b) Wading in the fountain at the park.
(c) At her next door neighbor's.
(d) Repairing her roof.

2. What does Katie find uncomfortable about her life?
(a) The confusion.
(b) The reality of perhaps being a single mother.
(c) Not being completely open with her mother.
(d) The uncertainty.

3. Who believes stars flow out of the sky like cream from a pitcher?
(a) Idealists.
(b) The French.
(c) Romantics.
(d) No one.

4. What does Katie's mother say about Matt?
(a) That he is a cad.
(b) That he probably did not intend to hurt her.
(c) That he maybe needs to grieve longer.
(d) That he has good taste in women.

5. How does Suzanne describe her life as a doctor in Boston?
(a) Wonderful.
(b) A challenge.
(c) Never boring.
(d) A rat race.

6. What is Katie holding?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A cell phone.
(c) A diary.
(d) A letter.

7. What does Suzanne love about her new situation?
(a) The fresh air.
(b) Being a country doctor.
(c) Being near the ocean.
(d) The friendly people.

8. What does Matt's mother teach Matt?
(a) How to paint.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Home maintenance.
(d) How to play the guitar.

9. What does Katie finally understand?
(a) Why God is both hated and loved.
(b) Why she can forgive Matt.
(c) Why she is crying.
(d) Part of the reason for the problems between her and Matt.

10. What could Katie not believe about herself concerning Matt?
(a) That she had believed he was right for her.
(b) That she had trusted him so much.
(c) That she had been so hesitent to open up to him emotionally.
(d) That she had fallen for a man with so little education.

11. What does Suzanne say about Melanie Bone?
(a) She is a bit of a gossip.
(b) She is the perfect neighbor.
(c) She is strange.
(d) She is kind but talks too much.

12. What had Katie done on July 19th?
(a) Stayed in bed all day.
(b) Worked until eight in the evening.
(c) Taken a ferry ride.
(d) Spent the day with her mother.

13. What style is Matt's poetry?
(a) Matt does not write poetry.
(b) Short, witty pieces.
(c) Long, epic poetry.
(d) Prose poems.

14. How is Matt's hair described?
(a) Short and masculine.
(b) A long pony tail down his back.
(c) As a little long.
(d) A buzz cut.

15. Where is Katie as the novel opens?
(a) Asleep.
(b) At work.
(c) In the bathtub.
(d) Shopping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Suzanne see her house painter?

2. What had Matt sworn to Katie?

3. Of what is Suzanne's work ball made?

4. How does Katie think her family would feel about her pregnancy?

5. About what do Suzanne and the painter talk?

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