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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. Why has the narrator realized that she and Joshua cannot go to Indonesia?
(a) Joshua cannot get a passport.
(b) She needs to stay closer to her doctors.
(c) The police will be watching the airports.
(d) They are out of money.

2. What does Colette's response to the teenage girl on the train in Chapter Seventeen demonstrate about Colette?
(a) She is nosy.
(b) She is overwhelmed.
(c) She is compassionate.
(d) She is insecure.

3. In Chapter Thirteen, what is Nell seeking when she decides to put her hacking skills to use?
(a) Background on Ross family employees.
(b) Background on the May Mothers.
(c) Information about Midas's father.
(d) Information on Hoyt's qualifications.

4. What is it implied that Nell is about to do when she calls Hoyt in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Tell Hoyt about Token's criminal history.
(b) Disclose Alma's immigration status.
(c) Ask the police to move reporters away from her building.
(d) Tell Hoyt about Winnie and the man in the red baseball cap.

5. When Token comes to Francie's apartment, what does his body language imply he might be lying about?
(a) Whether he genuinely believes Winnie is innocent.
(b) His involvement in Midas's disappearance.
(c) His motivations for the assault that led to his arrest.
(d) Whether he and Winnie are romantically involved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose remains are found near Winnie's upstate New York home?

2. What does Teb tell Colette in Chapter Seventeen?

3. What information is contained in the papers that Token gives to Elliott Falk?

4. What is implied by the remarks Scarlett makes about Daniel after he arrives at the apartment?

5. What revelation in Chapter Twenty-One explains the memory gap that Nell has from the night Midas was abducted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about Ghosh's Chapter Twenty press conference statement that everyone involved in the investigation has done "a stellar job" (276)?

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

3. When Token shows up at Francie's apartment in Chapter Twenty, what does he reveal about his long-ago arrest?

4. What argument do Francie and Lowell get into about a stroller, and what does the argument demonstrate about their relationship?

5. When Colette and Nell see Winnie's interview with the police, what causes them to worry about Winnie's mental health?

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

7. How does the book's epilogue convey the lasting damage that Midas's abduction has caused Winnie?

8. During her questioning of the person she meets at the bar in Chapter Fourteen, what does Francie learn about Winnie?

9. 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?

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

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