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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merlin do as Katie finishes the diary and cries?
(a) Crawls under the bed.
(b) Whines.
(c) Leaves the room.
(d) Comes and lays his head in her lap.

2. What does Katie tell Lynn and Phil?
(a) About her decision concerning her pregnancy.
(b) About Matt.
(c) About her pregnancy.
(d) About Suzanne.

3. What is the Islander?
(a) A map of the area.
(b) A local magazine.
(c) A pamphlet about the local art scene.
(d) A ferry.

4. What does Katie think she has to do?
(a) Find Matt and talk to him.
(b) Let Matt go and finish grieving.
(c) Give herself some time to process what she read.
(d) Contact Matt's mother.

5. How many weeks total do Matt and Suzanne honeymoon?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

6. What will Nicky wear for his baptism?
(a) A new christening gown made by Melanie.
(b) Suzanne's christening gown.
(c) His new white play outfit.
(d) Nothing since he will be dipped in the baptismal font.

7. What does Katie do when she finds Suzanne and Nicky's graves?
(a) Tells Suzanne how sorry she is.
(b) Sobs and sobs.
(c) Imagines Nicky's face.
(d) Sits and talks quietly to Suzanne about Matt.

8. What does Katie do for her friends Phil and Lynn?
(a) Gives them a referral to an editor.
(b) Buy them a dinner at a posh restaurant.
(c) Helps them write a birth poem for their new baby.
(d) Babysits to give them a night out.

9. Where does Katie go after stopping at Matt's house?
(a) Back to the ferry port.
(b) To Melanie's house.
(c) The beach.
(d) To Matt's mother's house.

10. Where do Suzanne, Matt and Nicky go for Matt's birthday?
(a) The beach.
(b) Coney Island.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Matt's mother's house for dinner.

11. What does Matt think of when he is looking at Nicky's rocking horse?
(a) The love that went into making the horse.
(b) That he never painted the horse.
(c) How Nicky would laugh as he rocked on the horse.
(d) The Flying Horses carousel.

12. What does Katie think about doing?
(a) Calling Suzanne.
(b) Finding out where Suzanne lives in Europe.
(c) Finding out where Matt's mother lives.
(d) Driving to the island.

13. What is one thing Suzanne says about Nicky when he goes for his check-up?
(a) He is ahead of his age group in development.
(b) He needs to gain a couple pounds.
(c) He can hold his head up.
(d) He has one eye that wanders slightly.

14. Who does Matt hire to care for Suzanne?
(a) Melanie.
(b) His sister-in-law who is a nurse.
(c) A professional nurse from an agency.
(d) No one; he does the nursing himself.

15. What does Matt have happen inside the church at the end of the ceremony?
(a) Matt has a blizzard of paper confetti to fall from the ceiling.
(b) Matt receives a phone call from his brother in Katmandu to congratulate them.
(c) A blizzard of feathers falling from the ceiling.
(d) A group of his best friends sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matt say about whose fault the accident was?

2. Where does Suzanne take Nicky one day while Matt is in the city?

3. What does Lynn say about Katie?

4. What had Matt promised to Katie that he would do?

5. What does Matt wish about seeing Suzanne leave?

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