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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 activity takes up most of Sam's daughter's time besides school?
(a) Chess club.
(b) A debate group called YAD.
(c) Lacrosse.
(d) Dance class.

2. How does Ally first meet her boyfriend?
(a) He is her teacher.
(b) Through YAD.
(c) Through her friends.
(d) Through her sports activities.

3. What is Sam's husband doing when she tells him she is leaving him?
(a) Fixing the furnace.
(b) Making a post-workout smoothie.
(c) Talking to someone else on the phone.
(d) Working.

4. What does Ally remember Sam often criticizing about her as she grew into adolescence?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her clothes.
(d) Her studying habits.

5. What did Clara Loomis's doctors use to treat her grief?
(a) Paxil.
(b) Laudanum.
(c) Xanax.
(d) Cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Sam give to the stranger she encounters?

2. What does YAD stand for?

3. What does Ally often send to her boyfriend, even though she knows she probably should not?

4. How does Sam's husband refer to their finances in Chapter 14?

5. What kind of house does Sam buy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sam afford the house she buys in Part I?

2. Why is Clara Loomis problematic as a historical figure?

3. What does Ally do with her secret boyfriend even though she has been cautioned against it many times?

4. What does Sam do to try to keep in touch with Ally?

5. In Chapter 6, what does Matt ask Sam to do regarding their daughter Ally?

6. Where does Sam end up meeting people she thinks are more like-minded in the realm of activism?

7. In Chapter 14, what does Matt do for Sam that makes it harder for her to be angry with him?

8. What does Sam do in the aftermath of the 2016 election that she has not done for a long while?

9. What does Ally think about one day telling Sam about her secret relationship?

10. What does Ally immediately think when Sam tells her she and Matt are splitting up?

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