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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 packs up her suitcases and leaves her husband in Chapter 24?
(a) Laura Griffith
(b) Wilhelmina
(c) Margaux
(d) Beatrix Griffith

2. Who leaves an envelope with checks in it for Viviane and Ava in Chapter 25?
(a) Jeremiah Flannery
(b) John Griffith
(c) Laura Lovelorn
(d) Constance Quakenbush

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

4. What word from Chapter 27 refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
(a) Fortitude
(b) Irony
(c) Persistence
(d) Catharsis

5. What is Cardigan’s response when Ava asks her in the opening of Chapter 16, “What’s his name?”
(a) Nathaniel Sorrows
(b) Jeremiah Flannery
(c) William Peyton
(d) Barnaby Callahoo

Short Answer Questions

1. Rowe Cooper works as a delivery truck driver for what business in Chapter 15?

2. What drink does Nathaniel offer to Ava when she sits by the fire in Chapter 23?

3. Whose apparitions attack and ultimately destroy Nathaniel Sorrows in Chapter 24?

4. The Lavender family’s home on Pinnacle Lane is described as being painted the color of what, in Chapter 27?

5. Of Viviane, the narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 22, “She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ava greeted when she is led into the home of Marigold Pie in Chapter 23?

2. What discoveries does Viviane make when she goes to retrieve Henry in Chapter 22?

3. Who appears at Ava’s window in the beginning of Chapter 15? How does Ava respond?

4. How is Nathaniel Sorrows’s attack on Ava described in Chapter 23? How is Ava harmed in the attack?

5. How does Emilienne get home from the bakery in Chapter 21? What conversation takes place during this journey?

6. What do Gabe and Viviane argue about in Chapter 16? How does Ava respond to the argument?

7. What leads Emilienne to call the police in Chapter 23? Where does she send the police when she calls?

8. Where does the ghost of Fatima lead Ava in Chapter 17? How does she lead Ava?

9. How does Ava describe the after-story of Marigold Pie in Chapter 26? Where did Marigold Pie go?

10. What scene does Ava describe Jack Griffith seeing from his balcony in Chapter 27?

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