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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 does Lorelei think Meg should do with her money instead of spending it on a ski vacation?
(a) Buy Rory a plane ticket home.
(b) Buy some things to make her house more cheerful.
(c) Buy herself some more colorful clothes.
(d) Give it to Lorelei.

2. What is Vicky's final gift to Meg?
(a) A poem.
(b) A tea towel.
(c) A pebble.
(d) A photograph.

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

4. What does Meg learn is Lorelei's cause of death?
(a) Sepsis and food poisoning.
(b) Tuberculosis and malnutrition.
(c) Coronary disease and heart attack.
(d) Lung cancer and respiratory failure.

5. In her Chapter 8 email to Jim, what does Lorelei indicate he has confessed to her in an earlier email?
(a) He has a substance use disorder.
(b) He was recently released from prison.
(c) He is not yet divorced from his wife.
(d) He does not actually live in England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Bird House does Rory have the most fond memories of?

2. Why is Meg pleased that Bill decides not to come to Vicky's funeral?

3. On page 363, what does Lorelei call "the piece of grit" that stuck inside her and "turned everything else to what it is"?

4. What do Meg and Beth object to about the outfit the funeral home has dressed Lorelei in?

5. What does Meg feel when she sees her father, Tia, and Kayleigh entering the pub for the wake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What point does Lorelei make about Valentine's Day in her email to Jim?

2. What does Lorelei tell Jim about the trauma in her own childhood?

3. How does Meg's reaction to the news that Colin and Kayleigh are camping while they are in England affirm Kayleigh's characterization of Meg's and Beth's reaction to her?

4. How does Lorelei characterize Rory in her email to Jim?

5. How does Meg's answer to Colin's question about how she is feeling about Lorelei's death demonstrate her complex feelings about her mother?

6. In Chapter 12, what details of Beth's life in Australia following Vicky's funeral are finally filled in?

7. When Beth receives Meg's text about Lorelei's computer password, why is she so relieved and happy?

8. How does Colin's conversation with Beth alter the reader's understanding of his conversation with Rory about Kayleigh and Tia?

9. When Rory arrives at Bird House in Chapter 14, how do his feelings about Lorelei and the house contrast with his memories of his childhood feelings?

10. In Chapter 9, what Easter gift does Beth's boyfriend give her, and why does she feel the way she does about this gift?

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