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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. What is the name of Risa's husband?

2. How long has Dolores lived in this town?

3. What does Dolores need to do before her afternoon school run?

4. Where does Dolores know Abbott will be when she passes her house?

5. Who is Mitchell Stephens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What time of year is it in Chapter 5 and what annual event do Dolores and Abbott usually attend?

2. What is Dolores' job and how long has she been doing it?

3. What is Wilmot Flats?

4. What is the basis for the affair between Billy and Risa Walker?

5. What does Dolores mean when she says that she always acted as if things were real?

6. Who is the first narrator and what does she first relate in the story?

7. What near-tragedy occurs when Billy and his wife smoke pot while on vacation in Jamaica?

8. From whose perspective is Chapter 5 written?

9. How does Dolores describe the Lamston kids?

10. What is the reaction of the people in the grandstand when Dolores and Abbott arrive this year?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in the story have suffered much loss even prior to the bus crash. Cite at least three examples of loss experienced by some of the characters and support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the irony of Nichole's being confined to a wheelchair as her long-awaited freedom from her father's sexual abuse.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Billy Ansel's relationship with death. What is his experience with it? How does he view it now in light of so much of it in his life?

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