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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. Why does Barbara consider calling Richard at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Barbara wonders if Richard has any news about Steven.
(b) Sheba is very upset.
(c) Barbara misses Richard's company.
(d) Barbara wants to check on Sheba's children.

2. Why is Richard angry when Sheba returns from Steven's at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) She was with Barbara.
(b) She took Richard's car without permission.
(c) He knew she was at Steven's.
(d) He did not know where she was or when she would return.

3. Where does Steven get the phrase "Foxy Lady" for the portrait he gives to Sheba?
(a) From his friends at school.
(b) From a movie he saw with his neighbor.
(c) From a magazine his father bought him.
(d) From a poster in his room.

4. Why does Sheba have to go to Scotland in Chapter 14?
(a) Polly ran away to her grandmother's house.
(b) Barbara has to visit family there and wants Sheba to come.
(c) Steven has gone to stay there.
(d) Richard is ill and has been hospitalized there.

5. Why is Sheba hysterical in her voice message to Barbara at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Pabblem wants to see her for a meeting.
(b) Steven has been hurt in an accident.
(c) Richard has found out about the affair.
(d) She has been fired.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news do Richard and Sheba get from Polly's boarding school?

2. Why does Sheba leave Barbara after Barbara tells her about Portia?

3. Why does Barbara think that Pabblem is calling her into his office in Chapter 15?

4. What does Sheba create a sculpture of?

5. What does Sheba do immediately after her fight with Barbara over the manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the incident at the restaurant on the way home from picking Polly up from Brighton.

2. Describe Barbara's physical condition in the beginning of Chapter 14. Why is her health suffering in this way?

3. Describe the dynamic of Barbara and Jennifer's past friendship.

4. Why is Barbara so upset with Sheba at the end of Chapter 12 when Sheba leaves to go see Steven?

5. Sheba locks herself in her room for forty-eight hours after finding Barbara's manuscript. Why do you think Sheba feels so betrayed?

6. Why does Barbara not tell Sheba that Sue is spreading rumors about the two of them?

7. What advice does Barbara give to Sheba when Sheba is hysterical over being called into Pabblem's office at the beginning of Chapter 15? Why does she give this advice?

8. Why is Barbara so terrified to tell Sheba the truth about her conversation with Bangs, and what does she tell her instead?

9. Why is Barbara depressed at the beginning of Chapter 13?

10. What is the significance for Barbara of seeing Sheba and Steven at the fireworks talking to each other?

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