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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. Who gets in huge trouble with Pop the summer Marie is 12?
(a) Agathe.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Helene.
(d) Marie.

2. Who changes clothes in Marie's apartment?
(a) Thomas Sankara.
(b) Daniel Slater.
(c) Sam Kinda.
(d) Ed Ross.

3. Who was obsessed with spies growing up?
(a) Helene.
(b) Pop.
(c) Marie.
(d) Agathe.

4. How does Marie react when Helene calls her from the army base in Oakland?
(a) She is excited.
(b) She is sad.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She is annoyed.

5. What is on the narrator's clothes in the first chapter?
(a) Blood.
(b) Ketchup.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Chocolate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Marie hug for a long time at Helene's wake?

2. Who does Pop ban Marie from seeing when she is a teen?

3. Where does the narrator drop off the kids in the first chapter?

4. Who calls the narrator from a payphone?

5. What does Helene insist the narrator wear as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Marie invites Thomas to her place for a nightcap?

2. What news does Helene give Marie at Tompkins Square Park?

3. What is Marie's relationship with Agathe like after Helene's wake?

4. Why is Marie ashamed of the memory of Helene's 13th birthday?

5. What happens when Marie returns from getting groceries one summer?

6. Who is Chris?

7. What happens when Marie takes Agathe to the airport?

8. What happens at Lenox Lounge with Thomas?

9. What happens at Helene's wake?

10. What happens when Marie first gets to her mother's house with the boys?

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