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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 is one of the ways Margaret feels in chapter 6 that Wanda has brought new life to her house?
(a) There are more people around.
(b) The phone rings now.
(c) She talks a lot.
(d) She plays music a lot.

2. What is the author describing in the prologue?
(a) Irma's small apartment.
(b) The bowling alley where Striker works.
(c) Wanda's small YMCA room.
(d) Margaret's sleeping house.

3. What picture does Margaret take from her wallet and study while in the coffee shop in chapter 1?
(a) A picture of her former husband, Stephen.
(b) A picture of her dead son, Daniel.
(c) A picture of her daughter, Wanda.
(d) A picture of her cousin, Molly.

4. What does the patient worry about having forgotten to do before visiting the doctor that day?
(a) Stop by the grocery store for apples.
(b) Pay her electric bill.
(c) Turn off her oven.
(d) Eat her jelly toast.

5. What does Margaret learn about Wanda on the night of the play's opening?
(a) Wanda has a new boyfriend.
(b) Wanda is an orphan.
(c) Wanda is sick.
(d) Wanda is leaving Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Margaret wake Wanda at five in the morning in chapter 14?

2. What is the first room Margaret shows Wanda in chapter 2?

3. In what city did Wanda and her parents live?

4. What were the religious beliefs of Wanda's father?

5. Who does Susan bring with her in chapter 15 when she comes to interview to be Margaret and Wanda's new roommate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Daniel Hughes killed? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of his death?

2. Why does Margaret go to the Hotel Orleans in chapter 10? Who does she meet there?

3. What does Margaret begin seeing in chapter 8? What is this a symptom of?

4. Why does Margaret insist on allow Wanda to use her car? Why does Wanda hesitate?

5. Why does Wanda interview the clerk at a second hand record store? Who does she pretend to be?

6. Why does the author introduce a dream that both Wanda and Margaret are having in chapter 7?

7. What role does Stephen play in Margaret's life now that the two are divorced?

8. Who does Margaret take to the opening night of Wanda's play? What does Margaret give to Wanda after the play is over?

9. What brought Wanda to Seattle? Why?

10. What was life like for Wanda when she lived with the Schultz family?

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