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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam donate to using all the funds in her checking account?
(a) A cancer fund she thinks will help Lily.
(b) Ally's own checking account.
(c) The GoFundMe account for the boy's family whose shooting she had witnessed.
(d) Red Cross.

2. Where does Sam often go for local news?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) Syracuse.com.
(c) The Syracuse Daily Times.
(d) WUSA website.

3. What everyday activity has suddenly started making Sam really angry in Chapter 11?
(a) Driving.
(b) Eating.
(c) Running.
(d) Reading.

4. What is the name of the boy who was shot in Part IV?
(a) Marshall Rali.
(b) Aadil Mapunda.
(c) Jesus Diago.
(d) Randall Holmes.

5. Where does MH suggest meeting Sam to talk?
(a) The Smiley Club.
(b) The coffee shop where they always meet.
(c) The police station.
(d) The State Fair.

6. In Chapter 16, what is Sam making in Clara Loomis House?
(a) A cabinet of Syracuse curiosities.
(b) A chair.
(c) A new needlepoint.
(d) A painting.

7. In Chapter 16, what does Laci tell Sam about MH that shocks her?
(a) She has a house on a lake in Skaneateles.
(b) She really is very poor.
(c) She owns her own company.
(d) She is the wife of a billionaire.

8. How does Sam change her hair?
(a) She dyes it blue for the first time.
(b) She gets extensions.
(c) She cuts it very short.
(d) She dyes it blond for the first time.

9. What does Sam think happens to her after the rally when she is home alone?
(a) She trips and falls, but only scrapes her hand.
(b) Someone breaks into her house and hits her hard on the back of her head, knocking her out.
(c) She falls asleep and wakes to gunshots outside again.
(d) She is shot.

10. What does Sam talk about in her open mic night that she regrets almost instantly?
(a) MH.
(b) Matt.
(c) Ally and her mistakes as a mother.
(d) Lily.

11. Whose portrait is in the stained-glass window in Joe's new project?
(a) The town's first mayor.
(b) Marianne Cope.
(c) The church's first priest.
(d) Laura Horn.

12. In Chapter 15, why does Lily tell Sam she hesitated to tell her about her illness?
(a) She does not even really know if she is sick.
(b) Sam is already worried about losing her job.
(c) She does not want Sam to obsess over it or to give Lily advice.
(d) Sam herself is sick.

13. What is all that Sam can think in her shock at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) She needs to get home to Matt.
(b) Ally is not safe.
(c) She is cold.
(d) A boy is dead.

14. In Chapter 16, who does Laci bring to Clara Loomis House to meet Sam?
(a) Henry.
(b) Tugg.
(c) Ally.
(d) Lily.

15. What does Sam feel she needs from the intense exertion of her exercise?
(a) Endorphins.
(b) The pain.
(c) The envious stares of other women.
(d) The sense of penance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first puts Sam in touch with her trainer?

2. What does the "Serial Stowaway" do routinely?

3. Who did Sam always used to go to the State Fair with?

4. In Chapter 12, what does Lily tell Sam about her upcoming visit?

5. In Chapter 15, what does Sam sometimes do to cope with stress in her new house?

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