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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 Aaron Knodel tell Maggie he wants to wait for to have sex with her?
(a) Until she graduates from college.
(b) Until she tells her parents about their relationship.
(c) Until he can divorce his wife.
(d) Until her 18th birthday.

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

3. In the Prologue, what does Taddeo say the man following her mother every day was doing behind her?
(a) Masturbating.
(b) Eating a croissant.
(c) Carrying flowers.
(d) Talking on his phone.

4. What does Lina tell her women's discussion group about how she feels about Aidan?
(a) He has always been the love of her life.
(b) She is planning on breaking it off with him soon.
(c) He treats her like dirt, but she still loves him.
(d) He will do for now until she can meet someone better.

5. What kinds of medical problems does Maggie struggle with during Aaron Knodel's trial?
(a) She suffers from asthma.
(b) She suffers from breast cancer.
(c) She suffers from depression and anxiety.
(d) She suffers from Lupus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aidan's last name?

2. What does Maggie's sister tell her about how people dress in Hawaii?

3. In the first section focused on Maggie in Part II, what does Aaron Knodel text to her that first disturbs her slightly?

4. Which of Maggie's sisters did her whole family visit one Christmas in Colorado?

5. Which writer does Taddeo quote at the very beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maggie react when she is demoted from varsity to JV soccer in high school?

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

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

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

5. What does Maggie do in Hawaii that changes how her family views her when she gets back from the trip?

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

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

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

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

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