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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 Amanda's job title?
(a) Account director.
(b) Managing supervisor.
(c) President and CEO.
(d) Administrative assistant.

2. What had a past therapist urged Amanda not to do with Clay?
(a) Be too soft on him.
(b) Be angry with him when he failed to act as she might have.
(c) Give him the silent treatment.
(d) Idolize him.

3. In Chapter 10, why is Amanda angry at Clay?
(a) For drinking too much.
(b) For telling the Washingtons they could stay at the house.
(c) For spending too much money.
(d) For smoking.

4. What does Clay make for dinner the first night they are at the vacation house?
(a) Salad.
(b) Stew.
(c) Hamburgers.
(d) Pizza.

5. What publication is Clay currently writing a piece for?
(a) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(b) Wired.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Staid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people on the porch say about the reasons they are there?

2. What does Amanda call Rose that Rose dislikes?

3. What does Clay think of the lights going out in New York City as?

4. What does Amanda think about the way the Washingtons look in relation to the question of them owning the house?

5. How does Clay feel towards the people on the porch at the end of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the title "Leave the World Behind" refer to?

2. In Chapter 17, what do Ruth and Amanda work on together that helps them bond just a little?

3. What happens to Clay that unsettles him in Chapter 16?

4. What does Clay think when G.H. Washington tells him where he lives in New York City?

5. Why do G.H. and Ruth ask to stay the night at the vacation house?

6. Why does Clay indulge Rose's request to take many books to the beach?

7. What does Ruth notice that she does not like about Clay's and Amanda's presence in the house?

8. Why does Amanda like getting emails from work, even when she is on vacation?

9. In Chapter 10, what does Amanda tell Clay she wishes she had of his that she does not actually mean?

10. How do Amanda and Clay feel about the vacation house?

(see the answer keys)

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