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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maggie veto?
(a) Getting vegetables.
(b) Buying chocolate chip cookies.
(c) Checking out.
(d) Ira's choice of cheap ice cream.

2. What does Daisy need help with?
(a) Directions to school.
(b) What to wear.
(c) Nothing, she is already packed.
(d) Her homework.

3. What was loosing Fiona and Leroy like?
(a) A hard blow.
(b) Maggie did not care.
(c) Maggie missed them a little bit.
(d) The first in a series of losses.

4. What does Maggie insist?
(a) That Fiona and Leroy come to visit for the weekend.
(b) Going to the movies.
(c) That Fiona's mother butt out of their business.
(d) Fiona get a new apartment.

5. How is Daisy different from Jesse?
(a) She loves her parents and spends time with them.
(b) She is not ready to get married.
(c) Extremely intellectual and self sufficent .
(d) She is focused on school.

6. What bothers Maggie?
(a) Her mediocre life.
(b) A silent home.
(c) Her children dont love her.
(d) Ira's insolence.

7. What does Fiona reveal about her present situation?
(a) She does not have a job.
(b) She can no longer drive.
(c) She is moving out of the country.
(d) That she is not getting married.

8. What is Fiona's current job?
(a) A grocery bagger.
(b) A bank teller.
(c) Hair washer at a salon.
(d) A nail stylist.

9. Although Maggie cannot be with her granddaughter, how does she feel at the end of the novel?
(a) She never wants to speak with Jesse again.
(b) Hopeful for what is to come.
(c) Angry.
(d) Spiteful towards Ira.

10. What happens to the van?
(a) The bumper is gone.
(b) It has a broken back window.
(c) It has a smahed tailight.
(d) Its paint is scratched.

11. What do they decide to eat?
(a) Italian pasta.
(b) A salad.
(c) Fried chicken and ice cream.
(d) Mexican food.

12. What did Maggie help Fiona with?
(a) Learning to cook.
(b) A difficult pregnancy.
(c) Finding a job.
(d) A bout of depression.

13. What does Maggie want back right at that moment?
(a) A new dog.
(b) That first kitten .
(c) Her family back.
(d) A new house.

14. What is Fiona studying?
(a) To be a massage therpist.
(b) Electrolysis.
(c) To be a hair stylist.
(d) To be a nail stylist.

15. What happened when Jesse quit high school?
(a) It further harmed his realtionship with Ira.
(b) He met Fiona.
(c) Daisy was very disapointed.
(d) He ran away to be with a band.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie think of her husband and son?

2. What did Maggie assume that the old man wanted to happen at the end of his life?

3. What does Ira refuse to do?

4. What does Fiona admit?

5. What does Maggie wish Leroy could do?

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