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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. Who do the women brag is going to make an appearance at the prayer vigil for Midas?
(a) Lachlan Raine.
(b) Teb Shepherd.
(c) Elliott Falk.
(d) Patricia Faith.

2. What do the police want to know about Winnie's relationship with Daniel?
(a) Whether Winnie was jealous when Daniel's wife gave birth.
(b) Whether Winnie and Daniel had an affair after his marriage.
(c) Whether Daniel was ever physically abusive toward Winnie.
(d) Whether Daniel ever made threats against Archie Andersen.

3. When did Winnie stop seeing her psychiatrist?
(a) When Midas disappeared.
(b) Just before Midas was born.
(c) A year after her mother's death.
(d) Just after she quit Bluebird.

4. What does Teb tell Colette in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) He wants her to completely revise her manuscript.
(b) He knows that she hid her connection to the Midas case from him.
(c) He is replacing her as his ghostwriter.
(d) He suspects that she has stolen something from his office.

5. In Chapter Twenty-One, what have Nell and Colette agreed to do that takes them outside on such a rainy day?
(a) They have agreed to Falk's request for an interview about Winnie.
(b) They have agreed to go with Francie to deliver a letter.
(c) They have agreed to Lowell's request for help with Francie.
(d) They have agreed to attend an emergency May Mothers' meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the woman in the hat and sunglasses watching the group in the book's epilogue?

2. On page 290, how does Scarlett characterize the emails Francie has been sending her?

3. What is Francie buying at the beginning of Chapter Nineteen?

4. Why is Francie so insistent on talking to Scarlett?

5. What happens in Lachlan Raine's life the same day that Nell's former identity is exposed?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does the reader learn about Dr. H?

2. In the Patricia Faith interview that Nell watches while she is at work in Chapter Thirteen, what makes it clear that Faith is trying to promote a particular viewpoint about Midas's disappearance?

3. What is the scandal that disrupted Nell's life many years ago?

4. What is ironic about Nell's boss's attitude when he is asking Nell about the magazine cover?

5. In Chapter Fifteen, what promise does the narrator remember making and then immediately breaking?

6. How does Francie's mental state both help and hinder the efforts to find Midas?

7. How do Nell and Colette end up in Scarlett's apartment?

8. In Chapter Fourteen, what causes Colette to jump to the conclusion that Midas is dead?

9. What are the implications of the papers that Francie finds in Scarlett's desk drawer?

10. What is Francie sure that the man in the red baseball cap lied to her about, and why is she so certain?

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