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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 do the newspapers report a four-year-old girl having been mauled by dogs on July 21, 2013?
(a) Wigan.
(b) Woodstock.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Witney.

2. Megan's body was discovered how far from her house, according to the news on August 1, 2013?
(a) Less than two miles.
(b) Just over ten miles.
(c) Less than five miles.
(d) Just about 15 miles.

3. Where does Megan say she keeps traveling back in her head on May 16, 2012?
(a) To Holkham.
(b) To Paris.
(c) To Binghamton.
(d) To London.

4. Rachel notes on July 23, 2013 that Ted Bundy looked like whom?
(a) Hugh Hefner.
(b) Cary Grant.
(c) James Dean.
(d) Jim Morrison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dr. Abdic say he is from when Megan asks him on September 20, 2012?

2. What term does Rachel use when describing a patient developing feelings for his/her therapist on July 29, 2013?

3. Who is the artist from the gallery whose picture Scott shows to Rachel on July 21, 2013?

4. For whom does Megan describe working as a nanny on August 14, 2012?

5. Where is Megan placing an application to take a fabrics course, according to the narrative of May 16, 2012?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rachel describe her appearance in the beginning of the novel?

2. How is the house at Number 15 Blenheim Road described by Rachel on Monday, July 8, 2013?

3. How does Rachel respond to seeing Jess kiss a man who is not her husband? Why?

4. On what date does Rachel's narrative begin in the opening of the novel? What is Rachel looking at outside of the train window?

5. What has Cathy discovered about Rachel's job on July 29, 2013? How does she respond?

6. How did Rachel come to live with Cathy? What is their relationship like?

7. How does Rachel describe the incident with Anna and her baby in the narrative from July 20, 2013?

8. What does Scott remark about Megan's therapy sessions on March 8, 2013?

9. What does Scott reveal to Rachel about the night of Megan's disappearance on July 21, 2013?

10. How does Rachel envision the relationship between Jason and Jess early in the novel?

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