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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 health plan does Casey sign up for through her job at Iris in Chapter 14?
(a) A Molina Healthcare plan.
(b) A Centene Corp plan.
(c) A Cambridge Pilgrim plan.
(d) An Aetna health plan.

2. Where is Alejandro from?
(a) Rio.
(b) Guayaquil.
(c) San Martinez.
(d) San Jose.

3. What does Casey say "rests more easily on men" (118) in Chapter 8?
(a) "Poverty."
(b) "Intelligence."
(c) "Success."
(d) "Age."

4. Where was Casey's mother when she died?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Chile.
(d) Texas.

5. Casey says in Chapter 1 that she has waited tables since she was how old?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Oli from?

2. Who wrote Black Tickets?

3. Where was Harry born?

4. How far does Casey bike from home to work at Iris?

5. How old was George Eliot when her mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Casey work? How does she feel about her job?

2. How is Mary Hand described? What is rumored about her?

3. What backstory is established for Casey in the opening of the novel?

4. How does the theme of health insurance arise in the novel?

5. Where does Casey live? How is her home described?

6. What history of abandonment affects Casey and influences her actions and emotions?

7. Where is the novel set? Why is this setting important?

8. From what narrative perspective is the story related? Why is this important?

9. Who is Adam and how is he described?

10. What do bees symbolize in the novel?

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