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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. In what point of view is Reta considering writing her novel?
(a) Third-person limited point of view.
(b) First-person point of view.
(c) Third-person omniscient point of view.
(d) Second-person point of view.

2. What is the name of the hostel Reta writes a check to each month?
(a) Peace Hostel.
(b) Promise Hostel.
(c) Passage Hostel.
(d) Pillars Hostel.

3. What is the first subject Reta and her writer friends discuss at the Orange Blossom Room?
(a) The nature of goodness.
(b) The path to enlightenment.
(c) The loss of truth.
(d) The way to forgiveness.

4. What do Reta, Tom, Christine, and Natalie do in the car in Toronto?
(a) They share memories of Norah and laugh.
(b) They ponder the future and laugh.
(c) They stare out the windshield and cry.
(d) They talk about their feelings and cry.

5. What is the name of the previous owners of Reta and Tom's Ontario farmhouse?
(a) McGinn.
(b) McGuffin.
(c) McGregor.
(d) McGafferty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the apartment Norah shares with her boyfriend located in the building in Toronto?

2. What does Reta want to demonstrate when she and Tom visit Ben after Norah's sudden disappearance?

3. What prize did Reta's novel, "My Thyme is Up," win the previous year?

4. What exercise does Reta find repellent?

5. What is the name of Reta's new novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Reta realize that she cannot create a perfect woman as a hero in her novel?

2. Why do Reta and her writer friends at the Orange Blossom Room conclude that the concepts of goodness and greatness are incompatible for women?

3. Why does the memory of shopping for the perfect scarf for Norah haunt Reta as a "big female secret" and what does the scarf represent?

4. How are Reta's feelings about sex related to her writing about Alicia and Roman?

5. How does Reta respond to the death of Mr. Scribano and how is it significant?

6. Why does Reta view her trip to the library as a way of reconnecting with Norah?

7. How do Natalie and Christine attempt to give the impression that Norah's absence is part of a normal routine?

8. Describe the response of the Winters' family to seeing the hostel where Norah stays and its significance.

9. When does Reta's mind begin to wander and what does she think of during dinner with Tom's physicist friend, Colin Glass?

10. What are Reta's feelings about Tom and their sexual relationship?

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