View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapters Eight-Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nell claim not to remember about the night at the bar?
(a) Ordering French fries.
(b) Dropping her purse.
(c) Token going into the bar with Winnie.
(d) Seeing the man in the baseball cap.

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

3. What does Francie's mother pester her about during their phone call?
(a) Moving home from New York.
(b) The money Francie owes her.
(c) Francie's baby's baptism.
(d) Going back to work.

4. 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?
(a) Healthcare.
(b) Education.
(c) Gun control.
(d) Maternity leave.

5. What did Winnie study as a child?
(a) Violin.
(b) Piano.
(c) Ballet.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Eleven, where does Francie go when she tells Lowell that she is leaving to meet the May Mothers?

3. What reason does Nell give for firing Alma?

4. Which of the May Mothers gets very upset when she sees the former Secretary of State being interviewed on television?

5. What is Nell's line of work?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 293 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample