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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. After speaking to Jimmy, what do Saghrue and Trahearne tell Rosie?
(a) Betty Sue has an ugly past her mother shouldn't hear about.
(b) The search for Betty Sue has turned up nothing.
(c) They know with certainty that Betty Sue is dead.
(d) Betty Sue does not want to be found.

2. What is Melinda's life story, as Melinda tells Sughrue?
(a) She had abusive parents and even more abusive boyfriends.
(b) She ran from home after not appreciating her caring parents.
(c) She is the wealthy heiress of life-loving, dead, young parents.
(d) She loved the grandparents who raised her, but have since died.

3. How does Sughrue describe Albert Griffith?
(a) Demeaning and cocky.
(b) Kind but slow.
(c) Desperate to impress.
(d) Intelligent and impressive.

4. What sort of sculptures does Melinda make?
(a) They envision her dreams and hopes for her future.
(b) Abstract and beautiful objects.
(c) Ugly and hideous memories from her past.
(d) They portray beautiful, fragile, traumatized women.

5. What does Jackson admit to Sughrue after their first meeting concerning Betty Sue?
(a) He prostituted her.
(b) He gave her an alias.
(c) She refused to marry him.
(d) She had his baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes Betty Sue and Albert Griffith's intimacy?

2. How do the police react to the answers from Sughrue and Rosie?

3. Why did Sughrue quit the line of work he started in San Francisco?

4. How does Charles Gleeson know Betty Sue?

5. What does the nurse, Sughrue and Trahearne do the morning after Sughrue and the nurse's date?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sughrue is uncomfortable about Catherine and Trahearne's mother living together. Why?

2. How does Betty Sue have the power to make Sughrue fall under her spell when they have never met?

3. How would Sughrue be affected by his experiences in Vietnam and the discovery of the butchered 14-year old boy?

4. Are Sughrue's descriptions of Albert Griffith accurate? Why or why not?

5. What do Sughrue and Trahearne's interactions with the nurse teach the readers about these two men?

6. Sughrue and Rosie concoct a story for the police. How does this story indirectly characterize them?

7. How does Peggy Blain's explanation of Betty Sue contribute to the development of Betty Sue's allure?

8. What does the audience learn about Trahearne's mother?

9. What events does the use of alcohol foreshadow as the book opens?

10. Is Edna's treatment of Sughrue out of character for her? Why?

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