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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "Serial Stowaway" do routinely?
(a) Get on trains without buying a ticket.
(b) Get onto airplanes without buying a ticket.
(c) Put herself in the trunks of people's cars on their trips.
(d) Get onto cruise ships without buying a ticket.

2. In Chapter 9, who does Sam's husband say she looks like?
(a) A musician.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) A French girl in a New Wave film.

3. In Chapter 13, how long ago did Sam's father die?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 20 years.

4. What features of Joe's new building does Ally think are incongruous?
(a) The barn doors and Edison bulbs.
(b) The archways.
(c) The ash floorboards.
(d) The silk curtains.

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

6. What particular gift does Joe give Ally?
(a) A car.
(b) A diamond ring.
(c) A vibrator.
(d) A bike.

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

8. What did Ally often call Sam when she was a young child?
(a) Ma.
(b) Mommy.
(c) Mama.
(d) Mother.

9. In Chapter 4, what is Joe's latest project?
(a) The Yard.
(b) The Horn.
(c) The Cope.
(d) The Church.

10. How does the audience react to Sam's open mic routine?
(a) They love her routine.
(b) They boo her.
(c) There is no real audience there to react.
(d) They do not really react.

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

12. In Chapter 10, who surprises Sam by coming to her work?
(a) MH.
(b) Betty.
(c) Gina.
(d) Ally.

13. Who accompanies Sam to the rally about Aadil?
(a) Amina.
(b) Lily.
(c) Matt.
(d) Ally.

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

15. In Chapter 6, what big change happens in Sam's and her husband's relationship?
(a) They stop speaking.
(b) They start having sex again.
(c) They start fixing up the house together.
(d) Sam's husband moves away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Sam do when Ally goes out with her friends?

2. Where does MH suggest meeting Sam to talk?

3. At the end of Part IV, what does Matt call Ally to tell her?

4. What does Sam's husband say she should get in her house in Chapter 9?

5. In Chapter 6, what does Sam often do after weight lifting?

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