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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 does Bertie order Howard to do after she is hurt?
(a) Bring some ice.
(b) Leave the house.
(c) Get the first-aid kit.
(d) Call 9-1-1.

2. Which family member do the others avoid at dinner at the Fetters home?
(a) Sabine.
(b) Howard.
(c) Bertie.
(d) Kitty.

3. Where does Dot go after talking to Sabine?
(a) Work.
(b) Bridge club.
(c) Grocery store.
(d) Church.

4. Where does Kitty take Sabine that Sabine has never been before?
(a) Home Depot.
(b) Wal-Mart.
(c) Target.
(d) The Gap.

5. What does Sabine understand about Parsifal now?
(a) Why he had such a bad temper.
(b) Why he had a strong code of ethics.
(c) Why he needed to have no family to talk about.
(d) Why he had such curly hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sabine thinks that none of life's troubles ever showed on _____________ face.

2. What is shocking about the visit from the person in #161?

3. Why can Sabine not tell her nephews how the magic trick was done?

4. What advice does Dot give Sabine?

5. Sabine realizes that Howard had been a ____________ in high school.

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Sabine's views of the world differ from Dot's perspective?

2. What makes Sabine wonder if the people she loved put on brave faces for her?

3. What does Sabine wonder about the residents of Alliance as they drive Bertie to the emergency room?

4. How is Parsifal's true past so different from the one Sabine had always envisioned?

5. What news does Sabine tell the Fetters family that upsets them?

6. What is Sabine's dream as she naps with Kitty?

7. How does Sabine come to realize that Parsifal had had a hard life long before she met him?

8. What makes Sabine think about her father when Kitty speaks to her about her own boys?

9. How do the stories about Albert Fetters make Sabine realize that Parsifal did what he had to do in order to survive?

10. What does Sabine make of the kiss from Kitty?

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