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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. Who has has accepted a poem from Matt for publication?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Paris Review.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The Atlantic Monthly.

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

3. What does Katie think about as she is musing about what she's read so far?
(a) That she is going to put Matt out of her mind.
(b) Moments with Matt.
(c) That she is going to go visit her mother for a couple days.
(d) That she is going to request that another editor be assigned to Matt.

4. Who is Suzanne riding in Matt's imagination as he and Nicky are chasing after her?
(a) Suzanne's beloved childhood horse.
(b) She is flying herself with angel wings.
(c) A unicorn.
(d) National Velvet.

5. What does Suzanne call her marriage?
(a) Fun.
(b) Intense.
(c) Magical.
(d) Content.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the three see at a playhouse?

2. Who seems to Katie like a sane and happy family?

3. What does Suzanne decide not to do after she and Nicky get home?

4. What is one thing Suzanne says about Nicky when he goes for his check-up?

5. Does it surprise Katie that Matt cheats on Suzanne?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does Katie ask as she is reading the diary?

2. What does Katie do one night for her friends the Browns?

3. What does Suzanne learn from her cardiologist on a check up?

4. What does Nicky wear to his baptism and how does he act during his baptism?

5. Where do Matt and Susan have their honeymoon and what does Matt bring Suzanne every day during the honeymoon?

6. What happens when Katie finishes the diary and what is said in the letter attached at the end of the diary?

7. What does Suzanne say about her and Matt's wedding?

8. What perfect memory do Suzanne and Matt create when in their son's room in the middle of the night?

9. What does Katie share with her parents and what is their reation?

10. What does Matt tell Nicky as Matt sits in Nicky's room and what does Matt wish he had done?

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