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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an action Ben takes on Lizzie's birthday?
(a) Finds her missing socks.
(b) Finds and sharpens her missing wayward pencils.
(c) Fills the table with presents.
(d) Makes her waffles.

2. When Lizzie invokes a saying usually applied to the Holocaust, what creature does she use to direct the quote's focus toward humans' destruction of the planet?
(a) Kelp.
(b) Sea anenome.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Coral.

3. Henry worries about the meaning of a photograph of a man carrying his child on his back over how many miles?
(a) 26.
(b) 12.
(c) 34.
(d) 8.

4. Most people at Margot's meditation class want to know about what subject?
(a) Nirvana.
(b) Relaxation.
(c) Balance.
(d) Vegetarianism.

5. What was Catherine's drug of choice before she got sober?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Adderall.
(c) Methamphetamine.
(d) Heroin.

6. How often during his waking hours does Henry text Lizzie once Catherine is approaching her due date?
(a) Every hour.
(b) Every week.
(c) Every three hours.
(d) Every day.

7. Which characters announce their engagement in Chapter Two?
(a) Catherine and Henry.
(b) Amari and Eli.
(c) Henry and Simone.
(d) Catherine and Roger.

8. Henry gets a job working for what kind of company in Chapter One?
(a) Greeting card.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Protein shake.
(d) Breakfast cookie.

9. Lizzie annually reads the diaries of which writer as her own birthday approaches?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

10. The back-to-school concert song Eli likes best turns out to be which song?
(a) Take It Easy.
(b) Dust in the Wind.
(c) American Pie.
(d) Black Magic Woman.

11. Lizzie notices signs around the library suggesting that viewers take what action?
(a) Dream.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Believe.
(d) Breathe.

12. In what grade is Eli, Lizzie's young son?
(a) 3rd.
(b) 4th.
(c) 1st.
(d) 2nd.

13. Which element is NOT a part of Eli's bedtime routine?
(a) A request to hear a happy thought.
(b) A clasping of hands.
(c) An account of his day.
(d) A kiss.

14. What term does Eli use to describe the phase of the moon when Lizzie points it out to him in Chapter One?
(a) Full.
(b) Waning crescent.
(c) Waxing crescent.
(d) New.

15. Henry moves to which location in Chapter One?
(a) His parents' house.
(b) Catherine's apartment.
(c) His friend's house.
(d) Lizzie's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lizzie reports that Eli's elementary school is made up of ten percent white children. What term does she use to describe most of the rest of the students there?

2. Ben's hometown is the town of Hackensack in which state?

3. Lizzie begins attending which types of classes in Chapter One?

4. When Lizzie gives an example of Sylvia's former optimism, she discusses a time when someone asked her a question about what element?

5. Lizzie states that it is harder for her to travel far from home during which season?

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