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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 does Nell confess about Beatrice's first day at daycare?
(a) Nell intends to pick the baby up early and not tell her partner.
(b) Nell planted a nanny cam at the daycare center.
(c) Nell cried hysterically when she dropped the baby off.
(d) Nell feels guilty about how relieved she is to have some time to herself.

2. What does the text's description of Winnie's home establish about her?
(a) She is security-conscious to the point of paranoia.
(b) She has surprisingly simple tastes.
(c) She has access to a great deal of money.
(d) She moves around a lot and considers this home temporary.

3. Where is the narrator as she narrates Chapter One?
(a) In a television studio.
(b) In prison.
(c) In a mental health facility.
(d) In hiding.

4. What detail of Winnie's appearance does Nell specifically notice when Winnie first enters the bar?
(a) Winnie's flat stomach.
(b) Winnie's happy expression.
(c) Winnie's pale complexion.
(d) Winnie's broken fingernails.

5. What reason does Nell give for firing Alma?
(a) Alma's undocumented status.
(b) Her suspicion that Alma took Midas.
(c) The journalists hounding Alma.
(d) Her partner's objections to Alma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of books does Colette write?

2. What is the name of the person that the first-person narrator keeps thinking about in the Prologue?

3. What concern of Francie's does the Chapter Two May Mothers email cover?

4. What does the narrator suspect that she and Nell have in common?

5. Early in their conversation at the bar, what aspect of life in the United States do the May Mothers compare unfavorably with the situation in other countries?

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