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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. How does Claire feel knowing that most people probably knew about James' affair?
(a) Sad.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Happy.
(d) Proud.

2. What does Claire ask the doctor about herself?
(a) Why she is having heart palpitations.
(b) If she has high cholesterol.
(c) When she can have sex again.
(d) If she can have some sleeping pills.

3. Whose clothes and makeup does Claire use?
(a) Her mother's.
(b) Margaret's.
(c) Judy's.
(d) Helen's.

4. What is Claire frightened of at the Dublin airport?
(a) Not making her connecting flight.
(b) Rude ticket agents.
(c) That her bags would be stolen.
(d) Terrorist attacks.

5. In addition to Claire, who else is attracted to Adam?
(a) Claire's mother.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Judy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Claire's husband's name?

2. Why does Claire decide to leave the coffee shop?

3. What does the person in #19 give Claire to drink?

4. What does Claire's mother think that Helen needs in her life now?

5. Where does Laura meet the person in #62?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claire meet her husband, James?

2. What does Claire's mother think about Claire's attraction to Adam?

3. Describe Claire's feelings of humiliation and jealousy.

4. What news does James deliver to Claire in her hospital room?

5. What irritates Claire when she and Adam meet for coffee?

6. Describe Claire's behavior as she settles into her parents' home.

7. What advice does Claire get from Laura about dating a younger man?

8. What is an important theme in the first section of the book?

9. Explain how Adam outrageously flirts with Claire.

10. How does the author show that Adam is on Claire's mind all the time now?

(see the answer keys)

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