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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Buck take Anita home from Colquitt's dinner party?

2. Whose appearance at Colquitt's dinner party upsets Anita?

3. What pet name does Pie's father call her?

4. Who paid the down payment on the Kennedy's house?

5. Who finds Pie after she falls and loses the baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Sheehans move to the Kennedys' neighborhood?

2. What does Kim suspect about the embrace Buddy and Lucas are caught in?

3. Why doesn't Colquitt think they will be punished if they end up burning the haunted house down?

4. What happens to upset Anita while Buck is out of town and Virginia and Colquitt are tasked with watching after her?

5. What has changed about Anita when Walter and Colquitt return home from a stay at the cottage?

6. Why does Claire tell Colquitt to hang curtains before the Harralson house is built?

7. What is unusual about Lucas' relationship with the Harralsons?

8. Why did Colquitt decide to leave the public relations company she worked at to do freelance public relations?

9. How is Kim's design of the Douglas house going in comparison to the work on the Harralson house?

10. What is unusual about Pie's behavior in the hospital following her miscarriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Claire serve to reveal aspects of Colquitt's personality? What values of Colquitt's does she demonstrate?

Essay Topic 2

How is friendship a motif of the novel? How does the house affect friendships?

Essay Topic 3

What does the term "climax" mean? What is the climax of this novel? What characteristics of a climax does the event have?

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