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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Beth returns to Bird House from London, what triggers her memories of herself and her siblings as children?
(a) The children playing in a splash pool.
(b) Sophie's polka-dotted raincoat.
(c) The art that her mother is adding to the kitchen wall.
(d) Maddy's basket of pink Easter eggs.

2. When Meg enters Bird House to start clearing it out, how long has it been since she was last there?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six years.
(c) A year.
(d) Three years.

3. What does Lorelei explain to Jim in her New Years email?
(a) Her relationship with Vicky.
(b) Her feelings about Rhys's death.
(c) Her estrangement from her children.
(d) Her children's inability to get along with one another.

4. Who is the first person that Beth suspects knows about her affair with Bill?
(a) Vicky.
(b) Lorelei.
(c) Meg.
(d) Kayleigh.

5. What request does Maddy make that surprises and deeply hurts Vicky?
(a) She wants to move in with her father.
(b) She wants Vicky to end her relationship with Lorelei.
(c) She asks Vicky to prove that she loves her.
(d) She asks Vicky to pretend not to know her when she is with her friends.

6. What does Lorelei tell Jim that she says she has never told anyone else?
(a) She regrets ever having had children.
(b) She thinks she knows why Rhys killed himself.
(c) She was not allowed to attend her father's funeral.
(d) She was never actually in love with Colin.

7. When she is about sixteen, why does Meg feel jealousy toward Beth?
(a) Beth is still small and thin, like a child.
(b) Beth is dating a boy Meg likes.
(c) Beth develops larger breasts.
(d) Beth is invited to the seaside with a friend.

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

9. What does Kayleigh joke about at Easter that makes everyone uncomfortable?
(a) Rory being a pedophile.
(b) Vicky and Lorelei's relationship.
(c) Bill and Beth having an affair.
(d) Rhy's reasons for his suicide.

10. What is the name of the man that Rory smokes and drinks with at the commune while Kayleigh takes care of their daughter?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Owen.
(c) Tim.
(d) Ken.

11. What issue do Rory and Kayleigh seem to be fighting about when they visit for Easter?
(a) The cost of the trip back to England.
(b) Whether Kayleigh is rude to Rory's family.
(c) Whether they will get married.
(d) How long they will be in England.

12. When Meg asks Vicky to watch Molly and Alfie while she has a quick nap, what is Vicky's real reaction?
(a) She wonders if Meg is really just using the children to spy on her and Lorelei.
(b) She thinks that Bill or Colin should take responsibility and watch the children.
(c) She is flattered that Meg trusts her enough to ask her to watch them.
(d) She is angry that watching the children will interfere with her plans for the day.

13. At Easter lunch in 1986, what does Meg get upset about her mother having so many of?
(a) Tea towels.
(b) Books.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Plastic straws.

14. During what period of time did Vicky first kiss Lorelei and discover that her feelings were reciprocated?
(a) When Alfie was being born.
(b) When Colin went to his first writer's conference.
(c) When Rory went to Spain.
(d) When Beth went to see Meg's first London flat.

15. At the end of Chapter 3, where are Rory and Kayleigh headed?
(a) Andalusia.
(b) Tuscany.
(c) Normandy.
(d) Corfu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lorelei looking for when she discovers that some of her things are missing?

2. What does Lorelei interrupt Meg's homework to insist she come look at outside one day?

3. When Meg and Molly are in their hotel room together, what does Molly ask her mother to buy her?

4. When Meg finally talks to Rory via Skype after Lorelei dies, where is Rory?

5. In her email to Jim, whom does Lorelei say might invite her for Christmas?

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