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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. From clues in Lorelei's emails, which character can the reader infer has died by 2010?
(a) Pandora.
(b) Beth.
(c) Rory.
(d) Vicky.

2. How does Vicky accidentally upset Lorelei when she is trying to find a way to get Kayleigh to stop saying crude things in front of the children?
(a) She suggests that it is time for the egg hunt.
(b) She sends all of the children over to Colin's.
(c) She asks Kayleigh to help her in the kitchen.
(d) She sends Rory and Kayleigh on an errand.

3. What does Rhys get into trouble for at school?
(a) Lurking outside the girls' changing room.
(b) Swearing at the headmaster.
(c) Leaving frightening messages in a girl's locker.
(d) Leaving school without permission.

4. In April of 2000, on Easter Sunday, what does Beth promise herself she will accomplish before Easter of 2001?
(a) She will start dating and look for a better job.
(b) She will confront her mother about the state of the house.
(c) She will end her affair with her sister's partner.
(d) She will leave Bird House, one way or another.

5. In April of 2000, why does Rory not call his mother as he promised on Easter Sunday?
(a) The phone at the bar is out of order.
(b) He has had to sell his cellphone for food money.
(c) Kayleigh will not let him leave the commune.
(d) He decides that talking to Lorelei is too depressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Meg asks Vicky to watch Molly and Alfie while she has a quick nap, what is Vicky's real reaction?

2. What is Meg's reaction to the news about Lorelei and Vicky's romantic relationship?

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

4. What does Lorelei make too many of for every Easter lunch?

5. What does Lorelei tell Jim that she says she has never told anyone else?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the robbery at Bird House end Colin's dream of going to Greece?

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

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

5. When she is in Greece, what causes Meg to be momentarily suspicious about Beth and Bill, and what does she decide is probably going on?

6. Describe Bill and Beth's relationship as it stands in April of 1999.

7. How does the very first passage describing a Bird family Easter egg hunt characterize Meg?

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

9. 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?

10. What is the one thing about Lorelei that Vicky cannot understand, and how does she try to reconcile herself to it?

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