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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Francie been writing in the notebook that she brings to Colette's apartment?
(a) A timeline.
(b) Questions about Winnie.
(c) Interview notes.
(d) A list of suspects.

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

3. How did Winnie's mother die?
(a) A fall down the stairs.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Overdose.

4. When Chapter Two takes place, how long has it been since Midas's birth?
(a) About 4 months.
(b) Just under 2 months.
(c) About 2 weeks.
(d) Almost 1 year.

5. What does Francie immediately notice about Colette's apartment?
(a) It is cluttered.
(b) It is huge.
(c) It is very cold.
(d) It has a strange smell.

6. Where does Nell go right after she leaves the clothing store in Chapter Eight?
(a) The police station.
(b) The park.
(c) City Hall.
(d) The Jolly Llama.

7. What odd thing does Francie have in her bra at the beginning of Chapter Seven?
(a) A baby sock.
(b) Tea bags.
(c) Lipstick.
(d) Potatoes.

8. What item from the file on the mayor's desk ends up in Colette's purse when she leaves City Hall?
(a) A flash drive.
(b) A copy of a warrant.
(c) A photograph.
(d) An interview transcript.

9. What is Nell's line of work?
(a) Information security.
(b) Public policy analysis.
(c) Investment fund management.
(d) Medical equipment sales.

10. In Chapter Eleven, where does Francie go when she tells Lowell that she is leaving to meet the May Mothers?
(a) The park.
(b) City Hall.
(c) The Jolly Llama.
(d) The police station.

11. Which of the May Mothers gets very upset when she sees the former Secretary of State being interviewed on television?
(a) Nell.
(b) Francie.
(c) Winnie.
(d) Colette.

12. Where does the novel take place?
(a) Westchester.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Albany.

13. What is the name of the person that the first-person narrator keeps thinking about in the Prologue?
(a) Joshua.
(b) David.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Andrew.

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

15. 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?
(a) It has a burn mark.
(b) It has a blood stain.
(c) It smells like vomit.
(d) It is ripped.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chapter Ten opens, what is Francie reading about online?

2. What news does Colette reveal to the May Mothers at the park in Chapter Two?

3. What causes Yuko to say the May Mothers need a new meeting place?

4. What do the police discover in the trunk of Mogaro's car?

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

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