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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 does Elaine think is telling her to die?
(a) Her inner self.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Grace.

2. Who do the little girls from Elaine's memories remind her of?
(a) Marie Antoinette.
(b) Frankenstein's monster.
(c) Lady Macbeth.
(d) Joan of Arc.

3. How old is the narrator in the book's first flashback?
(a) A college grad.
(b) A toddler.
(c) A baby.
(d) A teenager.

4. What famous figure is coming to Toronto?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Roy Rogers.
(c) Ingrid Bergman.
(d) Princess Elizabeth.

5. What do the two women Elaine hears talking about her at the Smeath house call her?
(a) A heathen.
(b) a poor beggar.
(c) An urchin.
(d) A wildcat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offered Elaine a place to stay in Toronto?

2. How did Elaine feel about coming to her art retrospective?

3. In the present time, where does the narrator look as she walks down the street?

4. Why does Elaine think Carol is a sissy?

5. The narrator thinks of time as having a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elaine describe her marriage to Jon?

2. What is Stephen worried about, when Elaine goes to high school?

3. How does Elaine feel about the woman who models for her first nude female drawing?

4. Why doesn't Charna want Elaine to be in the gallery when people begin arriving for the art retrospective?

5. How does Elaine feel when she visits the new school?

6. How does Elaine try to frighten Cordelia in tenth grade?

7. Throughout the novel, who does Elaine think she sees in crowds or around town?

8. How does Elaine feel about the women she talks to at the art retrospective?

9. Why is Cordelia in the rest home?

10. How does Elaine react whenever someone asks her for money?

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