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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Chapters Sixteen-Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is surprising about Colette's appearance when she opens the door to her apartment in Chapter Seven?
(a) She is missing a tooth.
(b) She does not have a shirt on.
(c) She has a black eye.
(d) She has dyed her hair black.

2. Who is Archie Andersen?
(a) A registered sex offender from Winnie's neighborhood.
(b) A man who keeps walking his dog past Winnie's apartment.
(c) A young man who stalked Winnie when she was a teenager.
(d) A conservative Christian religious leader.

3. 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 does not pay attention to the information she gets from the May Mothers.
(c) She is distracted by her tumultuous relationship with a married man.
(d) She did not anticipate that the baby might arrive before its due date.

4. What is the name of the television show that Winnie was on as a teenager?
(a) Bluebird.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Cupcake.
(d) Whispers.

5. On the night that Midas disappears, what does Francie have a nightmare about?
(a) Lowell asking for a divorce.
(b) Leaving Will in the grocery store.
(c) Being unable to breastfeed Will.
(d) Her mother showing up unannounced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Charlie leave for Colette in Chapter Seventeen?

2. How does Token feel after handing over the information to Elliott Falk?

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

4. Which of the May Mothers arranges the group's first meeting, in March?

5. What about the shirt she finds in her bathroom makes Nell worried that her vague memory from the bar bathroom on the previous evening might be real?

(see the answer key)

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