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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 4-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Joey's plea in the murder of his wife?
(a) Not guilty due to mental illness.
(b) Not guilty due to a crime of passion.
(c) Not guilty with an alibi.
(d) Guilty.

2. How does Merry feel about her father's apology?
(a) It is hollow.
(b) He doesn't apologize.
(c) It is sincere.
(d) It is half-hearted.

3. Who does Lulu get to help her mother?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) A downstairs neighbor.
(c) A police officer.
(d) Her grandfather.

4. What does Merry work up the courage to ask her father one day?
(a) Why he stabbed her.
(b) When he will get out of prison.
(c) If he ever loved her mother.
(d) Why he killed her mother.

5. How old is Lulu Zachariah at the beginning of the story?
(a) 13
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which part of her body has Merry been stabbed?

2. What is Lulu and Merry's religion?

3. What has Lulu been told regarding her father?

4. Where does Lulu's mother send Merry during the argument?

5. What are Lulu's parents fighting about?

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