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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 – 92.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Megan decide to tell Scott as the reason she quit her nannying job on August 16, 2012?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She was hired at the bank.
(c) She has decided to leave town.
(d) Tom was hitting on her.

2. Rachel says early in the novel, "Life is not a paragraph and death is no" what?
(a) "Question mark."
(b) "Sentence."
(c) "Apostrophe."
(d) "Parenthesis."

3. What kind of birds does the narrator describe laughing at her in the prologue?
(a) Magpies.
(b) Buzzards.
(c) Crows.
(d) Ravens.

4. About how many people does Rachel estimate die on the train tracks per year?
(a) 200-300.
(b) 50-100.
(c) 100-200.
(d) 300-400.

5. Where did Rachel take her first holiday with Tom?
(a) Cairo, Egypt.
(b) The western Australian coast.
(c) The Basque coast.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Megan says on August 16, 2012, "I had a teacher at school who told me once that I was a mistress of" what?

2. Where does the 8:04 slow train travel, according to Rachel in the beginning of the novel?

3. What is the number of Rachel's favorite trackside house?

4. What does Rachel presume Jason's job to be in her narrative on July 10, 2013?

5. How long ago did Rachel move in with Cathy, according to the narrative on July 9, 2013?

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