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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 Maggie's sister tell her about how people dress in Hawaii?
(a) Nobody dresses up there.
(b) Women wear evening gowns all the time.
(c) Everything is very formal.
(d) Women mostly wear bathing suits.

2. Who does Lina have a crush on in high school that she gets to go to the movies with on a double-date in the first section focused on Lina?
(a) Aiden.
(b) David.
(c) Sam.
(d) Rod.

3. In the first section focused on Lina, which friend does Lina go on a double-date with?
(a) Sloane.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Heather.
(d) Jennifer.

4. Who is the first person Sloane engages in a threesome with with her husband?
(a) Wes.
(b) Karin.
(c) Riley.
(d) Agatha.

5. How long were Maggie's parents, Arlene and Mark, married?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 50 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Aaron Knodel have with his wife in the second section of Part II that focuses on Maggie?

2. In the second section focused on Maggie in Part II, where does Maggie really want to go to college?

3. Where does Sloane live?

4. Which woman did Sloane have her first homosexual experiences with in college?

5. What does Lina tell the women in her discussion group in the first section focused on her in Part II that brings a chill to some of their interactions with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part I, what does 15 year-old Lina want more than anything else?

2. What is Lina most frustrated about in her marriage with Ed?

3. What does Lina tell her support group that she thinks created her emotional loneliness?

4. What does Mr. Knodel tell Maggie about what happened to her in Hawaii?

5. Why does Maggie dress and do her makeup carefully as she prepares for her first day attending the trial of Aaron Knodel?

6. How does Sloane deal with watching her husband have sex with other women in front of her?

7. In Part I, what initially enchants Lina about her physical relationship with Aidan as a teenager?

8. In the Prologue, what is Taddeo horrified to hear her own mother endured every day for a time as a young woman in Italy?

9. What does Lina tell her women's support group that makes them all see her differently?

10. When does Maggie start to think that Mr. Knodel's texts are becoming a bit strange for a student-teacher relationship?

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