1. With which of the following does the thirty-first chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “After play practice on Tuesday…”
(b) “Kayla could see that Austin had done it automatically…”
(c) “February found the emptying of the dorms…”
(d) “I said, how was school?”

2. With which of the following does the ninth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Charlie remembered the earliest years of her education with a certain fondness…”
(b) “It was one of those nights she could tell they were going to argue…”
(c) “The morning of the first day of school…”
(d) “Both of Austin’s parents came to drop-off…”

3. With which of the following does the thirty-third chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Austin spent the rest of Tuesday evening and all of their truncated Wednesday schedule awash with humiliation…”
(b) “February found the emptying of the dorms…”
(c) “Charlie was always ambivalent about the holidays.”
(d) “I said, how was school?”

4. With which of the following does the twenty-second chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “As the weeks passed, Austin found himself uncharacteristically apprehensive…”
(b) “Backstage was cavernous…”
(c) “As payback for her truancy, Charlie had received a red-faced diatribe from her father…”
(d) “February had received her share of 4:00 A.M. phone calls…”

5. In what state had the Workman ancestors been confined?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Montana.
(d) Minnesota.