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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. Which adult at school does Maggie confide in about what happened to her in Hawaii?
(a) Mr. Knodel.
(b) Mrs. Puchalowski.
(c) Ms. Kugel.
(d) Mr. Winnerton.

2. Who does Maggie become involved with in Hawaii?
(a) Norman.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Mateo.

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

4. How old is the man Maggie becomes involved with in Hawaii?
(a) 31.
(b) 50.
(c) 45.
(d) 22.

5. In the second section focused on Maggie in Part II, where does Maggie really want to go to college?
(a) Clemson University.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first section focused on Maggie, what does Maggie think of her makeup as?

2. What is one reason Lina tells her discussion group it is hard to leave her husband?

3. How long were Maggie's parents, Arlene and Mark, married?

4. What happens to Lina at the party her male friend invites her to in the first section of the book focused on her?

5. Where does Lina live, according to the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Sloane and Richard decide to start their own restaurant in Newport?

3. What is Lina slightly turned off by at the end of her first sexual encounter with Aidan when they begin their affair?

4. What does Lina sometimes find herself asking Ed to try to make up for her husband's emotional and physical detachment?

5. How does Maggie confide in Mr. Knodel about what happened to her in Hawaii?

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

7. What does the therapist Lina and Ed go to tell them both that frustrates Lina and makes her feel terrible?

8. How does Sloane react when she and Richard and Karin have their first threesome?

9. What does Aaron Knodel's defense lawyer ask Maggie about in Part I on the stand that the state's prosecution lawyer objects to?

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

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