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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator work?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The CIA.
(c) NYU.
(d) A grocery store.

2. Who does Pop ban Marie from seeing when she is a teen?
(a) Robbie.
(b) Helene.
(c) Rhonda.
(d) Chickie.

3. What is the name of the narrator's dog?
(a) Pooky.
(b) Poochini.
(c) Petey.
(d) Puck.

4. Who does Pop tell his daughter to spend time with?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Mr. Ali.

5. Why was the early 1960s so frightening for the narrator?
(a) Because of Woodstock.
(b) Because of segregation.
(c) Because she hated school.
(d) Because of the possibility of nuclear war.

6. Who gets sent to jail while in high school?
(a) Robbie.
(b) Marie.
(c) Rhonda.
(d) Helene.

7. Who thinks Communism is dangerous?
(a) Pop.
(b) Marie.
(c) Sankara.
(d) Agathe.

8. Who does Marie hug for a long time at Helene's wake?
(a) Pop.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Agathe.
(d) Daniel Slater.

9. Who does Marie feel safe with?
(a) Daniel Slater.
(b) Robbie.
(c) No one.
(d) Her kids.

10. Who is crying in the first chapter?
(a) A dog.
(b) The narrator's children.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) The narrator.

11. Why do the cops show up in Chapter 1?
(a) They heard gunshost from the precinct.
(b) The neighbor called them.
(c) They did not show up.
(d) The narrator called them.

12. When did Helene die?
(a) In the 70s.
(b) In the 90s.
(c) In the 80s.
(d) In the 60s.

13. Who inherits property from the departed?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The narrator's sister.

14. Who believes in Communism?
(a) Sankara.
(b) Pop.
(c) Agathe.
(d) Marie.

15. Who wants to open up their own firm?
(a) Mr. Ali.
(b) Marie.
(c) Daniel Slater.
(d) Helene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marie discover when she gets back from buying groceries in the summer?

2. What does Thomas's people think of him?

3. Why is the narrator embarrassed remembering Helene's 13th birthday?

4. Who does Marie drive to the airport after Helene's wake?

5. Who recognizes Marie at Pan Pan?

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