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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. What type of meals does Claire's mother usually feed her family?
(a) Home cooked meals.
(b) Frozen dinners.
(c) Fast food meals.
(d) Take out food.

2. What does Claire's mother feel about Claire's attraction to Adam?
(a) She feels he may be a possible catch for her.
(b) She thinks Claire needs a break from any man.
(c) She thinks the age difference is too much.
(d) She thinks Claire needs to concentrate on her marriage.

3. What bad habit intensifies during this bad period for Claire?
(a) She overeats.
(b) She consumes more alcohol.
(c) She does cocaine.
(d) She drives too fast.

4. What is the purpose of Claire's trip into town?
(a) To send some flowers.
(b) To buy a bike.
(c) To get a haircut.
(d) To shop for clothes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose clothes and makeup does Claire use?

3. Why does James not take Claire's call when she phones at his office?

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

5. When does Claire get the urge to call James?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Claire arrange it so that she runs into Adam?

2. Who is Laura and how does Claire know her?

3. How does Claire begin to come out of The Great Terror period in her life?

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

5. Why does Claire feel so guilty after spending the evening with Laura and Adam?

6. What realities does Claire realize that she must face now?

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

8. What does Claire say to Adam at the gym that puts a strain on the outing?

9. What does Claire learn about the woman James is involved with and what does Claire decide to do?

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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