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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 gesture of Jason's does Beth compare favorably with Bill's usual behavior?
(a) Jason puts his phone away to concentrate on Beth.
(b) Jason respects Beth's choice not to drink alcohol.
(c) Jason asks Beth questions about her life and listens to the answers.
(d) Jason pays for everything on their date.

2. What excuse do Beth and Bill give people for being in a secluded location in the dark together?
(a) They heard a strange noise.
(b) They needed some fresh air.
(c) They were looking for Bill's keys.
(d) They were smoking.

3. What is Rory most afraid of when he brings Kayleigh home to meet his mother?
(a) Explaining Vicky's and her children's constant presence in his family home.
(b) Kayleigh's tendency to be blunt and even harsh in her judgments.
(c) Seeing both his home and his girlfriend more objectively, through others' eyes.
(d) That Kayleigh will want to see Rhys's room and he will have to go in there for the first time in years.

4. Which is the only room in Bird House that Meg and Molly find is free of Lorelei's hoarded objects?
(a) Meg's bedroom.
(b) Lorelei's bedroom.
(c) Rhys's bedroom.
(d) The kitchen.

5. Who is the only person that scares Vicky?
(a) Lorelei.
(b) Colin.
(c) Rory.
(d) Meg.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Easter lunch in 1986, what does Meg get upset about her mother having so many of?

2. What is Beth's covert purpose in talking with Bill about her wardrobe and personal style?

3. What is the name of Meg's third child?

4. Besides her weight loss, what physical clue to Lorelei's ill health does Meg notice during Easter of 1999?

5. When Rory comes to visit for Easter, what has changed about his hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lie does Vicky tell Meg about Lorelei's hoarding during Easter of 1999, and why does she tell this lie?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does Beth's relationship with Jason result from the actions of other people in Beth's life?

7. How does Rory's new friend inspire him to make a change in his life?

8. Even though she is disgusted by her own behavior, why does Beth think she cannot give up her affair with Bill?

9. Based on Lorelei's emails, what seems to be true about her own childhood and its impact on the way she parents her own children?

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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