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

2. Who are Derek's sub-contractors?
(a) James and Gaspar.
(b) Gaspar and Benny.
(c) Benny and James.
(d) Henry and Benny.

3. What does Derek begin commenting on in the end of Part II to Dara that makes her instantly very upset?
(a) Her finances.
(b) Her relationship and closeness with Marie and Charlie.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her smoking habits.

4. Who has recently moved out the Durant house?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Marie.
(c) Dara.
(d) Amy.

5. Where did Dara's and Marie's mother have a space of her own that was private?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) Her car.
(c) The basement of their house.
(d) The attic of the dance studio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the other students pick on Bailey Bloom?

2. Who teaches the younger students at the Durant School?

3. When was the Durant School of Dance founded?

4. What does Dara see that shocks her when she arrives early at the dance studio in Part II?

5. What does Mrs. Bloom call the color of her blonde hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Marie done recently, before the start of the book, that Charlie and Dara are stung by?

2. How do Charlie, Marie and Dara originally meet?

3. What does Marie tell Dara about her affair with Derek?

4. What does Dara not want Marie to share with Derek in Part II about their lives?

5. How do Charlie, Dara and Marie make the choice to not only repair, but expand, the studio?

6. How do the other students at the dance school generally treat the girl who is cast as Clara?

7. What does Dara's and Marie's mother devote her life to?

8. What begins to go wrong with the contractor, Derek, at the dance studio in Part II?

9. Why does Dara refuse to touch students past a certain age?

10. What was the third floor of the dance studio originally for?

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