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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 is depicted as Janie's nervous habit in Chapter 45?
(a) Looking away.
(b) Stuttering.
(c) Giggling.
(d) Twirling her hair.

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

3. Cecilia apologizes for what aspect of her home when Tess comes over in Chapter 25?
(a) The chill in the air.
(b) The dust.
(c) The heat.
(d) The mess.

4. To whom does Principal Trudy give an Easter basket as a gift?
(a) Samantha.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Connor.
(d) Cecilia.

5. Rachel guesses that Principal Trudy is around the same age as Janie would be if she had lived. What number does is named in this regard?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 35.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of location do Connor and Tess meet for their first date?

2. In the scene depicting Janie's murder, what is shown to be Janie's cause of death?

3. What is the name of John-Paul's mother?

4. What is the name of Connor's late mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What errand does Tess run for Cecilia that puts Tess back into contact with Connor?

3. In what way does the motif of dreams appear within the narrative?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the reader find out the circumstances of Lucy and Andrew's divorce?

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