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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ava say Marigold Pie willed to her when she died, in Chapter 26?
(a) All of her belongings
(b) Her car
(c) Her house
(d) Nathaniel’s journal

2. What is Henry doing when Viviane encounters him in Jack’s home in Chapter 22?
(a) Taking a bath
(b) Sculpting a model
(c) Screaming and crying
(d) Drawing a map

3. What is the journal entry dated that concludes Chapter 15?
(a) September 12, 1955
(b) March 1, 1944
(c) April 29, 1959
(d) May 11, 1959

4. What impairment does Rowe Cooper suffer from in the novel?
(a) He is deaf
(b) He is epileptic
(c) He is asthmatic
(d) He stutters

5. Whom has Ava developed an attraction to in the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Nathaniel Sorrows
(b) Jeremiah Flannery
(c) William Peyton
(d) John Griffith

6. Whom does Nathaniel say “seems frantic to find you,” when he encounters Ava in Chapter 20?
(a) Viviane
(b) Emilienne
(c) Henry
(d) Gabe

7. Rowe has received a full scholarship to what college in Chapter 15?
(a) Boston University
(b) U.C.L.A.
(c) Berkeley College
(d) Harvard College

8. Who is the strange man sitting on Ava’s bed when she awakens in the night at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Rene
(b) Jack
(c) John Griffith
(d) Nathaniel Sorrows

9. What is the midsummer festival called in Greece, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) Kachinas
(b) All Couples’ Day
(c) The Feast of Epona
(d) Gathering Day

10. The birds that Ava finds in the third floor of her home in Chapter 26 are doves that have bred with what kind of birds?
(a) Sparrows
(b) Crows
(c) Owls
(d) Eagles

11. According to the narrator in Chapter 26, “No one had occupied the third floor of our house since the days of” whom?
(a) Wilhelmina
(b) Fatima Ines
(c) William Peyton
(d) Beatrix Griffith

12. What does Ava say Marigold Pie did after awakening from her drugged state in Chapter 26?
(a) She became a nurse
(b) She joined a circus
(c) She became a baker
(d) She became a dietitian

13. What is the midsummer festival called in Wales, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) The Feast of Epona
(b) Gathering Day
(c) All Couples’ Day
(d) Kachinas

14. What does Viviane recall Jack giving her as a gift before leaving for college in Chapter 14?
(a) A bracelet
(b) A dragonfly
(c) A parakeet
(d) A ruby ring

15. The Lavender family’s home on Pinnacle Lane is described as being painted the color of what, in Chapter 27?
(a) Faded violets
(b) Faded periwinkles
(c) California poppies
(d) Pansies

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from Chapter 19 refers to the dancing spirits of rain and fertility in the mythology of the Hopis?

2. Who is the first person to discover Ava’s injured body in Chapter 24?

3. What does Viviane note that there are none of in Jack’s home in Chapter 22?

4. Whose apparition appears and leads Ava out of her house when she’s ill with fever in Chapter 17?

5. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 16?

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