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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 Rory decide is the only good thing about having had a baby?
(a) The baby looks like the Birds and reminds him of home.
(b) He and Kayleigh have been given a nicer house to live in.
(c) He hopes that he can be a better father than Colin was.
(d) People sympathize with young parents and expect less work from them.

2. What item breaks on the first Easter described in the book and ends up in the garage with two others just like it?
(a) A television set.
(b) A plastic rabbit statue.
(c) An inflatable pool.
(d) A kitchen chair.

3. What is uncharacteristic about Beth's behavior during the beginning of Vicky's wake?
(a) She is kind to Kayleigh.
(b) She is sociable.
(c) She is drinking.
(d) She offers to watch the children.

4. When two teenagers break into Bird House and rob it, what does Lorelei compare the event to?
(a) A surgery.
(b) A movie.
(c) A circus.
(d) A rape.

5. When Meg sees the "Beth's Room" sign, what is she suddenly reminded of? (60)
(a) She and Beth were always jealous of one another as children.
(b) Her parents used to buy her and her siblings presents all the time.
(c) Beth was secretive even as a child.
(d) There was a time when all of the Bird children were happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which item that Lorelei collected as a child seems to disturb Meg the most?

2. What is Lorelei's sister's name?

3. On the day that Rhys committed suicide, who took Beth downstairs, away from the scene?

4. What does Maddy reveal about herself that makes Vicky see how unfair her choices have been to her daughters?

5. When Meg thinks of Lorelei's house as a "warren," on page 150, what is she implicitly comparing her mother to?

(see the answer key)

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