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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 59, where is John Keats?

2. In Chapter 37, what does Leo bring Jeremy and Charlie to drink?

3. What was the name of a single mother Emily remembers in Chapter 36 that her father used to take care of as her parish priest?

4. What type of car does Sheila learn picked up Emma the day she disappeared?

5. When Emma finds Janice in Chapter 62, how many packets of paracetamol are on her bedside table?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Janice tell Emily the first time they speak?

2. Why does Emily contact Jeremy Rothschild after she learns she is pregnant, and what does he suggest?

3. In Chapter 51, why does Jill tell Emma that she has picked her up?

4. What does Emma say about her life at the end of the Epilogue?

5. What happens when Emily watches Charlie at the Rothschild's house in Chapter 44?

6. Why does Emily worry about having her baby?

7. What is Jill's place like?

8. How did Emily's father die?

9. Why do Charlie and Jeremy come to Leo and Emma's house?

10. What does Jeremy tell Leo his thoughts were about Emma taking Charlie at the playground?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An analogy is the comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand characters, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Walsh uses in the novel? How do these analogies help readers comprehend characters, events, or concepts?

Essay Topic 2

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective are various sections and chapters told? How does each section and chapter add information? How does the use of multiple viewpoints allow Walsh to use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

Essay Topic 3

Jill waylays Emma and will not allow her to speak to Leo. Why does Jill waylay Emma and not allow her to speak to Leo? What are her motives? How does guilt guide her actions?

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