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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes with Winnie when she leaves to get herself an alcoholic drink?
(a) Francie.
(b) Colette.
(c) Nell.
(d) Token.

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

3. In Chapter Six, when the narrator is pacing inside her house, what does she automatically avoid?
(a) The rocking chair where she nurses the baby.
(b) The creaky board outside the nursery.
(c) The photo of her baby's father.
(d) Looking at her child's crib.

4. What concern of Francie's does the Chapter Two May Mothers email cover?
(a) Returning to work.
(b) Breastfeeding.
(c) Colic.
(d) Sleep training.

5. In Chapter Nine, where does the narrator say she is considering moving to?
(a) Panama.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Indonesia.

6. When Chapter Ten opens, what is Francie reading about online?
(a) Missing children who have been found.
(b) The criminal backgrounds of Alma's relatives.
(c) Westchester real estate.
(d) Developmental milestones.

7. What is Francie's baby's name?
(a) Poppy.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Lowell.
(d) Will.

8. What motivates Antonia Framingham to donate money to the NYPD to assist in finding Midas?
(a) She writes about missing children.
(b) Her son is the police commissioner.
(c) She is a friend of Winnie's grandparents.
(d) Her own child was abducted years ago.

9. When Colette arrives home in Chapter Eight, to whom is Charlie talking on the phone?
(a) Detective Hoyt.
(b) His publicist.
(c) Colette's mother.
(d) Nell.

10. What milestone in Beatrice's development does Nell witness at the daycare?
(a) Beatrice smiles.
(b) Beatrice eats rice cereal.
(c) Beatrice rolls over.
(d) Beatrice lifts her own head.

11. What Billy Idol song's lyrics do the women end up singing along to at the bar?
(a) "Cradle of Love."
(b) "Rebel Yell."
(c) "Dancing With Myself."
(d) "White Wedding."

12. What is Francie's partner's name?
(a) Sebastian.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Lowell.
(d) Charlie.

13. What does the narrator say is the downside of her genetic inheritance?
(a) Her father had bipolar disorder.
(b) Her mother had a substance use disorder.
(c) Her mother had breast cancer.
(d) Her father had cystic fibrosis.

14. What was the subject of Colette's first book?
(a) Growing up with a famous mother.
(b) The effects of stardom on child actors.
(c) The first female presidential candidate.
(d) Equitable division of household labor.

15. How do both Neeley and Teb respond to Colette's latest chapters?
(a) They suggest that she needs a co-author.
(b) They are critical and disappointed.
(c) They are pleased and intrigued.
(d) They urge her to work faster.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many natural miscarriages did Francie have before she got pregnant with Will?

2. Why does Nell text Francie and Colette to turn on the Patricia Faith show right away?

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

4. What does Nell confess about Beatrice's first day at daycare?

5. On the night that Midas disappears, what does Francie have a nightmare about?

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