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

2. What does Francie's mother pester her about during their phone call?
(a) The money Francie owes her.
(b) Francie's baby's baptism.
(c) Going back to work.
(d) Moving home from New York.

3. Who is Dr. H?
(a) The narrator's therapist.
(b) The narrator's childhood doctor.
(c) The narrator's child's pediatrician.
(d) The narrator's obstetrician.

4. What causes Yuko to say the May Mothers need a new meeting place?
(a) The crowds.
(b) The noise.
(c) The dirt.
(d) The heat.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the May Mothers gets very upset when she sees the former Secretary of State being interviewed on television?

3. What is Francie disappointed to learn about Scarlett?

4. When Colette arrives for her meeting with the mayor, who is Shepherd in a meeting with?

5. What does Mogaro's attorney suggest is the primary reason for the police's suspicion of Mogaro?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Colette takes the Midas file for the second time, what does she see that links her to the case and what does she do with it?

2. When the narrator is pacing inside her house, what memory does she recall, wondering if it was a hallucination?

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

4. In Chapter Eight, what memory does Nell suddenly have related to smoking?

5. How does Bodhi Mogaro's attorney explain away the evidence against Mogaro?

6. How do Chapters One through Three characterize Francie?

7. What does Francie mention having seen on Patricia Faith's television show, and how does Nell react?

8. What do the Prologue and Chapter One make clear was the father's reaction to the narrator's pregnancy, and why?

9. When Colette arrives home after her run in Chapter Eight, what do she and Charlie argue about?

10. In Chapter Five, why are the police being criticized for their handling of Midas's case?

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