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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beth think is the main reason she did not move to London to live with Meg when she was younger?
(a) Rhys's death.
(b) Meg's obsessive cleanliness.
(c) Her own insecurities.
(d) Lorelei's mental illness.

2. At the wake, what does Meg find out from Tia that irritates her?
(a) Colin cannot tell her two older sons apart.
(b) Kayleigh is pregnant again.
(c) Colin and Kayleigh have gotten married.
(d) Tia thinks that Colin is her father.

3. What threat does Meg make when she sees Lorelei in April of 2004?
(a) To have Lorelei institutionalized.
(b) To burn Bird House to the ground.
(c) To report her mother to the council.
(d) To get a dumpster and completely clear out the house.

4. What is Meg's husband's name?
(a) Ian.
(b) David.
(c) Bill.
(d) Greg.

5. In her email to Jim in Chapter 12, what comparison between her own situation and Colin's does Lorelei make?
(a) If Colin can change late in life, maybe she can too.
(b) Colin was miserable for most of their marriage, and she was, too.
(c) If Colin has a right to live with Kayleigh, Lorelei has a right to live with Jim.
(d) Colin seems to have gotten over Rhys's death, and it is time for Lorelei to do the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rory decide is the only good thing about having had a baby?

2. What is uncharacteristic about Beth's behavior during the beginning of Vicky's wake?

3. In Chapter 9, what does Vicky's comparison of her cancer's progress to a "whistle-stop sightseeing tour" indicate? (252)

4. In 2005, what does Lorelei do for the first time in decades?

5. What is Beth unpleasantly surprised by at Meg's house in September of 2006?

(see the answer key)

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