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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 is the narration style of the novel?
(a) Third-person omniscient.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) First person.

2. How does Hortensia feel about the letter requesting the burial?
(a) It is beautiful.
(b) It is rude.
(c) It is understandable.
(d) It is overly sentimental.

3. What is the name of Marion's husband?
(a) Bassey.
(b) Alvar.
(c) Peter.
(d) Max.

4. How does Hortensia feel about Beulah Gierdien's letter?
(a) It sounds fake.
(b) It is an emergency.
(c) It is beautiful.
(d) It is too sentimental.

5. What item does Marion think will save her from bankruptcy?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A painting.
(c) A ring.
(d) A sculpture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is the novel primarily set?

2. What is Hortensia's former profession?

3. What best describes the tone of Dr. Mama and Hortensia’s conversation?

4. Who is Marelena?

5. Why do Hortensia’s nurses repeatedly quit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Marion and Hortensia argue over the remodel?

2. How does Hortensia feel when Peter dies?

3. How is the committee dealing with the issues of Beulah Gierdien and the Samsodiens in Chapter Eight?

4. What is the Samsodien family claiming?

5. What is Marion’s current financial predicament in Chapter Three?

6. Why does Hortensia arrange for Marion to be her nurse?

7. Why does Beulah Gierdien write a letter to the Katterijn community?

8. What does Chapter Seven reveal about why Marion became an architect?

9. Why does Marion label Hortensia "a thief"?

10. Why does Dr. Mama visit Hortensia? What is their interaction like?

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