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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 object does the narrator obsess about at the beginning of Chapter Nineteen?
(a) A police car.
(b) A stuffed elephant.
(c) A bottle of pills.
(d) Midas's blanket.

2. In Chapter Twelve, what does the narrator imply is one of the many lies she has told?
(a) That she does not want her married lover to leave his wife.
(b) That she regrets the harms she has caused other people.
(c) That she wanted the baby and enjoys motherhood.
(d) That she would actually like to live in the countryside permanently.

3. In Chapter Nineteen, whom does Francie recall seeing on television earlier, trying to dodge a pack of reporters?
(a) Nell.
(b) Mayor Shepherd.
(c) Colette.
(d) Winnie.

4. What does Scarlett do when Grace points a gun at her?
(a) She holds a knife to Colette's throat.
(b) She forces Grace to shoot her.
(c) She stabs herself.
(d) She jumps from the balcony.

5. In Chapter Fifteen, what does the narrator admit to having failed at?
(a) Being a good friend.
(b) Protecting her son.
(c) Managing her mental illness.
(d) Keeping her affair a secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chapter Thirteen opens, what are Nell and Colette doing?

2. Whose birthday is the group celebrating in the book's epilogue?

3. What falls out of the journal that Francie finds in Colette's desk?

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

5. What benefit does Francie see in Barbara's presence in her home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What frightening event happens while Colette is on the subway, and how does she react?

2. Where did Token get the papers that he gives to Falk, and how have his intentions regarding these papers shifted since he gained possession of them?

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

4. When Francie enters Winnie's home, what is the detail that she "can't help but notice," and what does this detail imply (265)?

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

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

7. What does Francie read in Scarlett's journal, and what does this journal entry make clear to the reader?

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

9. At the beginning of Chapter Nineteen, what troubling event is the narrator imagining happening?

10. What item is delivered to all three women--Nell, Francie, and Colette--and what does it contain?

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