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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 beverage do Cecilia and Tess enjoy together in Chapter 26?
(a) Tea.
(b) Ginger ale.
(c) Cocoa.
(d) Rum punch.

2. Cecilia's daughters complain when Cecilia makes what type of meat for dinner on the night of John-Paul's homecoming?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Beef.
(c) Fish.
(d) Buffalo.

3. In what type of location do Tess and Connor meet up in Chapter 44?
(a) A bowling alley.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) A bar.
(d) A beach.

4. What news led John-Paul to violently attack Janie?
(a) The news that she was pregnant.
(b) The news that her family would soon be moving.
(c) The news that she would not be attending the prom with him.
(d) The news that she could not date him anymore.

5. In the scene depicting Janie's murder, what is shown to be Janie's cause of death?
(a) Suffocation.
(b) Smoke inhalation.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Strangulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what capacity does Samantha work for the school at which Rachel also works?

2. To which two characters does Rachel say that she will personally deliver their Tupperware orders?

3. Watching which two characters talk and laugh together in Chapter 29 causes Rachel to mourn for her lost friendship with an adult Janie?

4. At the time of the narrative's events, how many years have passed since Janie's murder?

5. Liam is disappointed to learn that which character is not the person who had called Tess while they were out shopping?

Short Essay Questions

1. Connor reminds Tess that what event had precipitated their break-up in their youth?

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

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

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

5. What faux pas does Principal Trudy commit in Chapter 41?

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

7. What two aspects of motherhood had caught Tess by surprise upon having Liam?

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

9. What standing appointment does Cecilia have with her mother-in-law Virginia each week and how does Cecilia view these visits?

10. How does Lucy react to Tess's revelation that she has recently slept with Connor?

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