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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What demand is made when Jim asks what the bank robber wants besides pizza?

2. In Chapter 40, who goes to the closet to talk to Anna-Lena?

3. What does the psychologist tell Zara she thinks is wrong with her in Chapter 51?

4. What do Jack and Jim find at the back of the walk-in closet in the apartment in Chapter 42?

5. What does Ro say she found in a refrigerator during one of her apartment viewings that she ate and tasted great?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack find in the walk-in closet at the apartment?

2. How do Jack and Jim discover that the bank robber did not shoot themselves?

3. Why does Jack get annoyed when he interviews Julia and Ro?

4. What does Anna-Lena say about being a boss?

5. Why does Anna-Lena say that Roger waited 20 minutes to move his car after a man asked if he could have Roger's parking space?

6. What does Jack do when he learns that his father let the bank robber escape?

7. What does Ro request when Estelle offers to make some food?

8. What does Lennart tell Zara about Anna-Lena and Roger's careers?

9. What gift does Roger give Ro in Chapter 39?

10. What does Jim remember that his wife used to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Zara and Lennart have a conversation on the balcony. What do Zara and Lennart converse about on the balcony? What do houses symbolize to each of them?

Essay Topic 2

When Zara sees the bank robber pointing the gun toward herself, Zara makes her lower it. What does Zara’s response reveal about the way she is changing? What does her response reveal about how her therapy appointments have influenced her?

Essay Topic 3

The bank robber’s husband has an affair. What does the narrator think happened to the bank robber’s marriage? Why does the narrator think complacency played a part in the failure of the marriage?

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