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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what point during their sexual experience with the first woman they invite into the bedroom does Sloane become upset with her husband?

2. Which niece of Maggie's is born when she is a sophomore in high school?

3. What is the last name of Aaron Knodel's defense lawyer?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do some people think is Maggie's motivation for accusing Aaron Knodel of a crime?

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

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

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

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

7. In Part I, where do Lina and Aidan frequently meet to fool around?

8. What happens to Lina in high school that changes the rest of her life and makes the rest of high school very difficult?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think are Lina's main motivations in initiating and sustaining her affair with Aidan? How does Lina feel about her family dynamic and support system (or lack thereof) growing up throughout her childhood and adolescence? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.

Essay Topic 2

Taddeo writes that some of her mother's dying advice to her is to never let other people see that she is happy - especially other women. Write an essay analyzing how Taddeo's mother's advice seems to relate to the lives of each of the three women her book focuses on - Maggie, Lina, and Sloane.

Essay Topic 3

What connections do you think Taddeo draws between female desire and power through the stories of Maggie, Lina, and Sloane? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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