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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 did Nola try to kill herself?
(a) She thought Harry did not love her and that he might be in love with Jenny Quinn.
(b) She thought she was insane.
(c) She thought her father hated her.
(d) She thought her mother hated her.

2. What did Harry tell Marcus is the single most important thing he could teach him?
(a) Take plenty of walks on the beach.
(b) The importance of knowing how to fall.
(c) Choose your words very carefully.
(d) You have to be disciplined to be a writer.

3. What did the inscription on the manuscript that was found with Nola's remains say?
(a) You killed me, Nola.
(b) It was not meant to be, Nola.
(c) I will love you forever, Nola.
(d) Good-bye, darling Nola.

4. What was the first event Nola asked Harry to attend?
(a) The end-of-year high school show.
(b) The match-making festival.
(c) The town gala.
(d) The county fair.

5. Why did Tamara Quinn want to ruin Harry's reputation?
(a) She thought he was pretentious.
(b) She was angry at him for embarrassing her by not showing up at her garden party and rejecting her daughter.
(c) She thought he had killed on of her friends.
(d) She hated his writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Tamara Quinn's daughter?

2. What did Tamara find in Harry's house that she planned to use against him to ruin his reputation?

3. What kind of car did Harry drive in 2008?

4. Who was the Somerset police chief in 2008?

5. What did Harry tell Marcus was the only way to tell how much you love someone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Harry tell Marcus to write only fiction?

2. What is the Writer's Disease Marcus Goldman describes at the book's start?

3. What crucial piece of information did Nola's friend Nancy Hattaway tell Marcus that resulted in a critical misunderstanding later in the book?

4. Why did Marcus think that Nola had been having an affair with Elijah Stern?

5. What did Harry tell Marcus is the only way to know if he really loved someone?

6. What topic does Marcus's mother always turn any conversation they have to?

7. Why did David Kellergan tell Marcus he always listens to music in his garage so loudly?

8. What did Harry Quebert tell Marcus about the first chapter of a book?

9. When Marcus visited Harry in Somerset in 2008, what stunning note did he find in Harry's house?

10. What did Marcus's publisher, Roy Barnaski, tell Marcus he wanted his book about Harry to include more of?

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