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

Joshua.

2. What does the Prologue imply is the likely cause of the narrator being unprepared for her child's birth?

She is distracted by her tumultuous relationship with a married man.

3. How much time elapses between the Prologue and Chapter One?

14 months.

4. Where does the novel take place?

Brooklyn.

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

Francie.

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

They both have an important secret.

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