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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 210 - 279).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dara and Marie once hear their father threatening their mother with?
(a) Stabbing her.
(b) Burning down the house.
(c) Killing her in a car accident.
(d) Breaking her leg.

2. Where did Marie go for the brief time she left the Durant house?
(a) To Las Vegas.
(b) Abroad.
(c) To try to start her own dance school.
(d) She would never say.

3. What does Charlie think it might be a mistake for them to do in Part I?
(a) Try to expand the studio.
(b) Always play it safe.
(c) Put on The Nutcracker every year.
(d) Eat too much.

4. What does Marie have on her body as a result of her affair with the contractor?
(a) New clothes.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) Bruises.
(d) Nothing.

5. What theater does the Durant School always hold The Nutcracker at?
(a) The Ballenger.
(b) The Gate.
(c) The Temple.
(d) The Folway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did neither Marie or Dara ever get to play in The Nutcracker?

2. Where does Marie live?

3. What is one of the strange things the police seem to pick up in in the story about Derek's death?

4. What does Corbin ask Dara to do for him in rehearsal that she will not do?

5. What word does Dara use to tell Marie her impression of Marie's affair with Derek?

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