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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. What is the main thing that makes Beth so eager to get home to Bird House when she stays at Meg's place to help out during Alfie's birth?
(a) She is uncomfortable in Meg's super-clean home.
(b) She feels guilty about not being at Bird House on Easter.
(c) She does not actually enjoy being around small children.
(d) She does not want to risk revealing her feelings for Bill.

2. What does Colin tell Rory about Kayleigh when father and son are at the pub together?
(a) Kayleigh will never accept Lorelei.
(b) Kayleigh has no clear goals in life.
(c) Kayleigh is manipulative and dishonest.
(d) Kayleigh is a drama queen.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gesture of Jason's does Beth compare favorably with Bill's usual behavior?

2. What does Kayleigh joke about at Easter that makes everyone uncomfortable?

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

4. Who calls Meg while she is in the hotel room with Molly?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Colin's reaction to the art wall show that even early in the children's lives he is struggling with Lorelei's collecting?

2. When Meg and Molly are leaving Bird House, what does Molly say she has a hard time imagining, and what question does she ask her mother?

3. When Kayleigh is talking to Beth about quitting smoking, what does Beth assume she is really saying, and why?

4. What is Alfie's full name, and what is its significance?

5. When Molly asks Meg whether she would have liked Rhys,what is Meg's response?

6. What is foreshadowed by Lorelei and Vicky's conversation after Vicky confesses to having given some of Lorelei's things to charity?

7. How does Colin end up as Lorelei's next-door neighbor?

8. What surprises Beth about Molly's existence, and what does it make her realize about herself?

9. What is ironic about Lorelei's characterization of Meg's "frantic reproduction" (1)?

10. How does the craft box demonstrate how Lorelei's collecting evolves into hoarding?

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