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

2. Why does Nell text Francie and Colette to turn on the Patricia Faith show right away?
(a) Faith is interviewing Winnie.
(b) Faith is showing a photograph of Nell.
(c) Faith is interviewing Mogaro's attorney.
(d) Faith is showing a photograph of a known sex offender.

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

4. What does Lowell think Francie is spending too much time doing?
(a) Worrying about Midas's case.
(b) Obsessing about breastfeeding.
(c) Working outside their home.
(d) Socializing with her friends.

5. What does Francie ask Winnie to do that causes Winnie to leave the table to go get herself a drink?
(a) Tell the story of Midas's birth.
(b) Talk about Midas's father.
(c) Talk about Midas's colic.
(d) Show them photos of Midas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Francie been writing in the notebook that she brings to Colette's apartment?

2. Who arrives at Colette's apartment just as she is about to explain what is in the file she copied?

3. What reason does Nell give for firing Alma?

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

5. What did Winnie study as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter Eleven, what does Francie decide the police need to investigate further?

7. What does Colette discover on the mayor's desk, and what does she do with it?

8. How do Chapters One through Three characterize Francie?

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

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

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