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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapters Four-Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Colette reveal to the May Mothers at the park in Chapter Two?
(a) Winnie is a single mother.
(b) She is writing a new book.
(c) She believes that Token is interested in Winnie.
(d) She has hired a full-time babysitter.

2. How much time elapses between the Prologue and Chapter One?
(a) 10 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 14 months.
(d) 20 months.

3. Which May Mother does Nell say she was with at the bar, even though this woman did not attend the event?
(a) Gemma.
(b) Yuko.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Scarlett.

4. What part of Patricia Faith's broadcast upsets Francie?
(a) Hearing the woman's bigoted remarks about undocumented immigrants.
(b) The insinuation that Winnie may have harmed her own child.
(c) Hearing that the first twenty-four hours are critical in a missing child case.
(d) The news that the police want to talk to the women who were at Winnie's house that night.

5. What does the Prologue imply is the likely cause of the narrator being unprepared for her child's birth?
(a) She is distracted by her tumultuous relationship with a married man.
(b) She does not pay attention to the information she gets from the May Mothers.
(c) She is not really interested in being a mother and is living in denial.
(d) She did not anticipate that the baby might arrive before its due date.

Short Answer Questions

1. What odd thing does Francie have in her bra at the beginning of Chapter Seven?

2. What Billy Idol song's lyrics do the women end up singing along to at the bar?

3. Where does the novel take place?

4. Why does Nell's partner object to the babysitter Nell hired?

5. What has Francie been writing in the notebook that she brings to Colette's apartment?

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