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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. According to Maggie, what question does Aaron Knodel text to Maggie on New Years' Eve night that is suggestive?

2. In the Prologue, what does Taddeo say the man following her mother every day was doing behind her?

3. Which woman in Lina's discussion group has a very good-looking boyfriend?

4. How old is the man Maggie becomes involved with in Hawaii?

5. Who is like the mother hen in Lina's women's discussion group?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Sloane's and Richard's first threesome come about?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

As you learned more about Sloane's childhood, adolescence, and core familial relationships, how did your understanding of her relationship with her husband and her willingness to go along with his desires to see her have sex with other men and women change? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your findings.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the book, Arlene Wilken, Maggie's mother, finds herself unable to let the case against Aaron Knodel, and how it turned out, rest. Why do you think Arlene has such a difficult time accepting the outcome of Aaron Knodel's trial and of the state of her and her family's situation? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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