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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. What does Frankie think Joe acts like twelve years after they met?
(a) Like Frankie is a dead beat.
(b) Like they are from different countries.
(c) Like they were never friends.
(d) Like Frankie still owes him something.

2. Where does Mary hide the household money?
(a) In a tin.
(b) Under her bed.
(c) Under the television.
(d) In her clothes drawer.

3. What does Salvatore prepare a large feast for?
(a) The wedding.
(b) The women's party.
(c) The Christening.
(d) The men's party.

4. What does Dolores say to herself slowly in part one?
(a) French numerals.
(b) German numerals.
(c) The Lord's Prayer.
(d) Hail Mary.

5. What does Dolores say her father was screaming at while Dolores was in the fire?
(a) Horses.
(b) A rugby match.
(c) A football match.
(d) Greyhounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mary work at night?

2. What does Frankie say he will ask Joe for?

3. Whose house does Celeste take her sisters to?

4. What does Frankie play on the day Dolores is born?

5. Who walks Celesta home after her date with Markus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Celesta overhear Mrs. Jackson saying to her husband?

2. How do the neighbors help Mary after the fire?

3. How does Frankie prepare to see the bookie?

4. What is Frankie's life like before Dolores is born?

5. How does the family's situation change the day Dolores is born?

6. How did Frankie meet Joe?

7. How did Joe help Frankie out?

8. How does the author build suspense in part one, chapter three?

9. Why does Frankie's theft of the household money cause such a problem for Mary?

10. What does Frankie think about at the end of the chapter?

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