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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 word does Molly use on page 276 to describe how she remembers Lorelei?
(a) Fun.
(b) Weird.
(c) Childish.
(d) Magpie.

2. When Colin is in Thailand, what does he tell Rory that Lorelei has begun hoarding?
(a) Easter eggs.
(b) Aluminum cans.
(c) Baby clothes.
(d) Newspapers.

3. At the wake, what does Meg find out from Tia that irritates her?
(a) Tia thinks that Colin is her father.
(b) Colin and Kayleigh have gotten married.
(c) Colin cannot tell her two older sons apart.
(d) Kayleigh is pregnant again.

4. What interrupted Lorelei's plan to talk to Rhys on Easter about what had happened the night before?
(a) Meg's arrival home from London.
(b) Vicky's arrival with the wine.
(c) A family game of Trivial Pursuit.
(d) The Easter egg hunt.

5. What is the "follow-on milk" that Meg discovers in Lorelei's kitchen?
(a) Plant-based, dairy-free milk.
(b) Baby formula for older babies.
(c) Supplemental nutrition for sick or elderly people.
(d) Milk that has had the lactose removed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is uncharacteristic about Beth's behavior during the beginning of Vicky's wake?

2. Where does Beth tell Meg she intends to raise her daughter?

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

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

5. What does Meg mean when she complains that her family's behavior is "lurid"? (206)

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What evidence is there at Vicky's funeral and wake that Meg's attitude about Colin and Kayleigh is changing?

4. What caused Meg to kick Bill out in 2003, and what was the result?

5. 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?

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

7. What is Lorelei's explanation to Jim regarding why she is always hungry?

8. What cruel irony does Meg see in what she was doing herself at the time of Lorelei's death?

9. What is Vicky's perspective on the way Lorelei helps her during her illness?

10. When the first floor of the house is completely cleaned out, what does Meg realize about Lorelei and the past?

(see the answer keys)

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