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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Francie disappointed to learn about Scarlett?
(a) Scarlett is getting divorced.
(b) Scarlett and her husband are moving.
(c) Scarlett has started feeding her baby formula.
(d) Scarlett is cutting her maternity leave short.

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

3. What part of Patricia Faith's broadcast upsets Francie?
(a) Hearing that the first twenty-four hours are critical in a missing child case.
(b) The news that the police want to talk to the women who were at Winnie's house that night.
(c) The insinuation that Winnie may have harmed her own child.
(d) Hearing the woman's bigoted remarks about undocumented immigrants.

4. What does the narrator suspect that she and Nell have in common?
(a) They both have an important secret.
(b) They are both single parents.
(c) They are both wealthy women.
(d) They both regret getting pregnant.

5. What is the name of the babysitter that Nell provides for Winnie?
(a) Alma.
(b) Grace.
(c) Gemma.
(d) Autumn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Nine, where does the narrator say she is considering moving to?

2. Where is Francie from?

3. What odd thing does Francie have in her bra at the beginning of Chapter Seven?

4. On page 80, what significant words does the narrator end Chapter Six with?

5. Where does Nell go right after she leaves the clothing store in Chapter Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Prologue and Chapter One characterize the narrator?

2. What does Francie remember about Mr. Colburn, her high school science teacher?

3. When the police arrive at Nell's to question her, what memory from her past temporarily confuses her?

4. When Colette is at the park in Chapter Eight, what secret desire is she thinking about, and what stops her from trying to obtain it?

5. How does Chapter One hint at trouble in the narrator's childhood?

6. What makes Colette feel like an impostor among the other May Mothers?

7. What is Nell's theory about Token, and why does Colette believe Nell is probably mistaken?

8. How do the narrative perspective and point of view shift from the Prologue through Chapter Three?

9. What is revealed about Colette's mother in Chapter Seven?

10. What does Winnie leave on the table at the bar, and where does it eventually end up?

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