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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who approaches Alison and Jamie at the party to tell Alison that Dory is worried about her?
(a) Cale.
(b) Alison’s mother.
(c) Lester.
(d) Dory’s uncle.

2. What does Alison invite Jamie and Cale to when she meets them at the jetty?
(a) A party.
(b) The movies.
(c) Tammie’s house.
(d) Her house for dinner.

3. What does Cale tell Jamie about his dead girlfriend whose necklace he wears?
(a) She committed suicide.
(b) He made her up.
(c) She is alive and lives in Cairns.
(d) He killed her.

4. What name does Ron’s boss go by?
(a) El Diablo.
(b) El Padre.
(c) Pablo.
(d) El Jefe.

5. What is the name of the boy people assume is Alison’s boyfriend?
(a) Cale Townsend.
(b) Vance Townsend.
(c) Lester Townsend.
(d) Dory Townsend.

6. After meeting him at the jetty, what does Alison say about the area they walk to near the courthouse ruins?
(a) It is the scariest place she knows.
(b) She has never been there before.
(c) It is her happy place.
(d) It is the saddest place she knows.

7. How many stories has Nam written in the year he has spent at the writing workshop?
(a) 25.
(b) 0.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 3 1/2.

8. Who is Dory’s friend, whom Michael tells Jamie saw him with Alison?
(a) Vance.
(b) Lester.
(c) Wilhelm.
(d) Cale.

9. Jamie’s mother says people always ask if she is okay, but never ask her what?
(a) If she is in pain.
(b) If she is happy.
(c) If she wants to eat.
(d) If she wants to move.

10. How does Alison react when Dory is beating Jamie up?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She tries to help Jamie.
(c) She tells at Dory to stop.
(d) She cannot watch.

11. Who does Nam awake to find standing outside his bedroom door?
(a) His friend.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His girlfriend.

12. Where is the main character getting ready to go at the start of “Meeting Elise”?
(a) Radio City Music Hall.
(b) Town Hall.
(c) Carnegie Hall.
(d) New York Philharmonic.

13. How old was Olivia when she and Henry first met and she modeled for him?
(a) 30.
(b) 17.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

14. What does Henry’s doctor tell him he will likely develop if he does not have it already?
(a) Colorectal cancer.
(b) An ulcer.
(c) A cold.
(d) Hemorrhoids.

15. Who did Nam’s father see get executed by an American soldier when he was young?
(a) His siblings.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is describing the beaches of Cartagena at the start of the story?

2. Who is Nam’s girlfriend?

3. Why is the window in Claudia’s house missing?

4. What is the name of the main character in the story “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”?

5. What did Henry’s ex-wife want him to buy for a five-year-old Elise the first time she reached out to him?

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