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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. The issue of Sports Illustrated through which Evvie glances in Fall: Chapter 1 contains a story about a baseball player from which team?
(a) The Mariners.
(b) The Yankees.
(c) The Cubs.
(d) The Mets.

2. Evvie tells Dean that when "You're twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of" (75) what?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Not a concern.
(d) Lazy.

3. On what occasion had Evvie received the dishes she uses to host Thanksgiving?
(a) Her birthday.
(b) Her
(c) Her wedding.
(d) Her anniversary.

4. Evvie's favorite client is a woman named "Nona Powell Brown, a professor at" (26) which university?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Howard.
(c) Brown.
(d) Morehouse.

5. What shade of blue does Evvie paint the apartment at the back of the house Tim buys for them to live in?
(a) Azure.
(b) Periwinkle.
(c) Peacock.
(d) Sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What television show is the shared guilty pleasure of Evvie and Dean once he moves into the apartment?

2. For what meal do Evvie and Andy always meet on one particular day each week?

3. Evvie threatens to take what action against Ellen Boyd if she does not immediately leave Evvie's porch?

4. Evvie recalls incurring a bruise on which part of her body when "she'd once slipped" on the "slick staircase"(10)?

5. Who is Andy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major secret is Evvie keeping from her best friend Andy?

2. What does Evvie mean when she thinks about semicolons in relation to Dean's speech?

3. What event is revealed at the end of the prologue to have brought a halt to Evvie's plans?

4. Describe Dean's reaction to Evvie's story about the reporter who came by asking about Dean.

5. Name and discuss a second coping mechanism Evvie used to combat the feelings inspired by her unhappy marriage, according to the narrator.

6. What is revealed to have happened the one time when best friends Andy and Evvie had tried to view one another in a romantic light?

7. What elements does Evvie name when she tells Dean the topics that concern the citizens of Calcasset?

8. Name and discuss one coping mechanism Evvie used to make it through her days during her marriage to Tim.

9. How does Holmes weave together issues of class with issues of domestic abuse?

10. Which comment of Frank's makes Evvie furious during Thanksgiving dinner and why?

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