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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 group leaves a flyer in the front door of Sam's new house?
(a) RCT.
(b) RTE.
(c) LTE.
(d) NTE.
2. Who is Sam's daughter?
(a) Grace.
(b) Ally.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Helen.
3. In Chapter 15, what is especially unnerving to Sam about what happens in her house?
(a) The burglars left a note.
(b) The burglars fell asleep in her bed.
(c) The burglars ate her food.
(d) The burglars took a tile from her fireplace.
4. In Chapter 8, what does Sam give to the stranger she encounters?
(a) Food and money.
(b) Ice.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A coat.
5. What does Sam's husband tell her will just take time to improve in Chapter 14?
(a) Sam's relationship with Ally.
(b) Sam's efforts to get a better job.
(c) Sam's weight loss efforts.
(d) Sam's singing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sam think of as the time in the middle of the night when she wakes and cannot get back to sleep?
2. In Chapter 8, what does Sam drink for her night out?
3. What activity takes up most of Sam's daughter's time besides school?
4. What is MH's ring made of in Chapter 7?
5. What does Sam find unusual about Laci's friend's living situation?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Clara Loomis problematic as a historical figure?
2. How does Sam afford the house she buys in Part I?
3. What is Ally's relationship with Lily like?
4. Where does Sam end up meeting people she thinks are more like-minded in the realm of activism?
5. What is one way, as Spiotta puts it, to understand what happens to Sam in Part I in terms of the upheaval in her life?
6. What does Sam do in the aftermath of the 2016 election that she has not done for a long while?
7. In Chapter 14, what does Matt do for Sam that makes it harder for her to be angry with him?
8. In Chapter 5, why do some of the youngest women at the activist meeting get angry and storm out?
9. What does Matt seem to think Sam's decision to leave him might really be mostly about?
10. Where does Sam work, and what does she do there?
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