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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 which family member does Tess receive a gift delivered by a courier while she is staying at her mother Lucy's house?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her uncle.

2. What new detail about Rob's birth does Rachel share with him on the anniversary of Janie's death?
(a) His beauty.
(b) That he had nearly died.
(c) That he had had a twin.
(d) The length of her labor.

3. In what type of location do Tess and Connor have sex for the first time as adults?
(a) A basement.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) A hallway.
(d) A bathtub.

4. Cecilia recalls getting angry with what type of official who had once made Isabel cry?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A tennis instructor.
(d) A principal.

5. On the night of Janie's murder, who had been at home with Connor?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Lauren.
(c) No one.
(d) Ed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what material was the rosary's crucifix that was found wrapped around Janie's hands?

2. About what topic was the final argument between Tess and Will, according to her recollection?

3. What activity does Principal Trudy tell Rachel that she will be doing during spring break?

4. Tess confesses to Connor that she is using him in order to keep from thinking about which character?

5. Which of Tess's family members does she believe may have also had social anxiety?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major event in Rachel's life occurs the day after the Easter parade?

2. Describe Janie's murder as it is portrayed in Chapter 45.

3. What action does Rob offer to take with Rachel, though he has never done so before?

4. What possible reasons does the narrator name for Tess's feelings of shame in Chapter 40?

5. What information does Samantha, Rachel's colleague, reveal to the reader about Connor's childhood?

6. What emotion keeps Tess from feeling pain when she thinks in Chapter 37 about her early days with Will?

7. What does Connor say about the nature of his relationship with Janie?

8. Whose arrival does Liam announce proudly at the end of Chapter 47 and why is the moment ironic?

9. How does Moriarty go about using Melbourne and Syndey as foil settings within the narrative?

10. How does Cecilia find out that her mother-in-law Virginia knows of John-Paul's culpability in Janie's death?

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