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

2. What delights Nicky that the three do later that day?
(a) Swimming in the kid's fountain at the park.
(b) Feeding the ducks at the park.
(c) Going down the big slide into the kiddie pond.
(d) Riding the carousel.

3. What can Katie only seem to do?
(a) Not call Matt.
(b) Read a few pages of the diary.
(c) Not burn the diary.
(d) Resist reading the diary over and over.

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

5. What is Katie relieved about when she goes to a bar Matt patronizes?
(a) That the bartender knows Matt and says he has not been in in weeks.
(b) That Matt is there but not drinking.
(c) That Matt is not an all-day patron there.
(d) That the bartender says Matt comes it but seldom has a drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lynn say about Katie?

2. What does Katie think about as she is musing about what she's read so far?

3. What does Matt surprise Suzanne with one day when she comes downstairs in her pajamas?

4. Who is Suzanne riding in Matt's imagination as he and Nicky are chasing after her?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Katie sees Matt outside her office?

2. Who goes with Katie to the gynecologist's appointment, and how is Katie feeling as she waits to get in to see the doctor?

3. What had Matt's friends and coworkers done while Matt and Suzanne were gone from the house for three days?

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

5. What does Matt think about as he sits in Nicky's nursery?

6. What does Katie remember about Matt as she is thinking about the diary?

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

8. Describe the locket Matt gives Suzanne.

9. Where does Katie encounter Melanie and what does Melanie tell Nicky?

10. Who does Katie think of calling and does she do so?

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