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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. Why did Joe decide not to send Ilya to collect?
(a) He gambles the money.
(b) He is too slow.
(c) He has the flu.
(d) He takes advantage of the women.

2. Who does Frankie not want to hear Salvatore shouting?
(a) Joe.
(b) Fran.
(c) Dolores.
(d) Mary.

3. What does Dolores take home with her?
(a) The belt.
(b) The chest.
(c) The sewing box.
(d) The rabbit hutch.

4. What room does Dolores study as she sits on her mother's old bed?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The living room.
(c) The dining room.
(d) The kitchen.

5. Whose arms does Rose remember seeing her mother in on the day of the fire?
(a) Martineau's.
(b) Salvatore's.
(c) Frankie's.
(d) Joe's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dolores see still sitting in the back of the garden?

2. What did Frankie give Celesta as a present?

3. What does Dolores remember her sister locking her in?

4. What do Rose and Dolores plan in part two, chapter fifteen?

5. How did Mary die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel end?

2. Why is Dolores so transfixed by the photograph?

3. What does part two, chapter three say about Rose's character?

4. What does Salvatore discover in part one chapter eleven?

5. Describe Celesta's adult life?

6. How does Frankie react when Salvatore falls into the dry dock?

7. What happens to the death towel in part two, chapter nineteen?

8. What is Mary's state when she is discovered at the Salvation Army hospital?

9. What does Rose remember about her father's belt?

10. In what way does Rose defy her husband?

(see the answer keys)

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