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

2. Why did Wanda work hard to never break a dish in the Schultz household?
(a) She thought the chips and cracks on the dishes were her fault.
(b) She did not want to get in trouble.
(c) She thought a broken dish would cause her father to be injured.
(d) She did not want to be abandoned again.

3. Who tells Margaret she should not allow Wanda to borrow her car in chapter 8?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Susan.

4. Who does Margaret think Wanda is buttering up with her constant compliments on the decor in the house in chapter 2?
(a) Margaret's housemates.
(b) Margaret's ex-husband.
(c) Margaret's former tenant.
(d) Margaret.

5. Who features prominently in Margaret's dream in chapter 17?
(a) Gus.
(b) Troy.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Stephen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pets did one applicant to e Margaret's roommate own?

2. Why does Wanda resist Troy's advances in chapter 16?

3. Where does Stephen draw a picture of Margaret in chapter 5?

4. What item does a waitress have that Margaret notices in chapter 1?

5. Why does Margaret refuse to have chemotherapy or radiation treatments for her illness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do Margaret and Wanda begin breaking plates in chapter 13? What is the purpose?

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

6. Who is the first respondent to Margaret's ad for a roommate? Why does Margaret like this first respondent?

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

8. What discussions does Margaret have with her doctor in chapter 10? What is the result of these discussions?

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

10. Why does Margaret Hughes decide to get a roommate? Who does she need to consult first?

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