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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kelly tell the reporter when she asks if her life is what she had imagined it would be?
2. How does Sam answer Lia's question?
3. Where does Lia meet Sam?
4. When Kelly returns from changing Oliver, she finds a mix-up. They are missing something. What is it?
5. How is Kelly feeling as she watches Steve and Oliver at the Wee Ones Music Class?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ayinde implement what she learned from her parents in her childhood: that she was a lucky little girl to live so well and she had to be kind and helpful to those less fortunate?
2. Starting with "November Lia," tell how Lia is beginning to appear on the road to recovery.
3. How does learning the truth about her childhood help Lia move toward reconciling with Sam?
4. How does the author address the common feeling among mothers that they aren't as good at mothering as everyone else they know, or that they lost their temper and yelled?
5. How does the readers' perception of Steve change in "January Kelly"?
6. One of the main themes of the book is forgiveness. How is that played out in "February Becky"?
7. What is the huge plot twist that happens in "January Becky"?
8. How does Becky crack the tough shell Mimi has built around her?
9. How does the fact that Julian is crying when Kelly and Lia arrive and the knowledge that Ayinde didn't know he was crying show the emotional turmoil that she is going through?
10. Kelly has been driven by appearances and having everything perfect. How does this change in "February Kelly"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
All four main characters become unexpectedly best friends. Learning each main character's personalities, does this surprise you? In what ways is it beneficial for these four women to become best friends? In what ways is it harmful for these four women to become best friends?
Essay Topic 2
Choose the one character from Little Earthquakes that you think most resembles yourself. Explain how this character resembles you using detail and examples from the story.
Essay Topic 3
Both Ayinde and Kelly consider divorce at some point during the story. Ayinde thinks of a chapter from Baby Success that focuses on babies as the ones that really matter and that babies do better with a mommy and daddy under the same roof. Do you agree with this advice? Why / why not? Should Ayinde have patched things up with Richard? Why / why not? Do you think either Kelly or Ayinde should have followed through with a divorce? Why / why not?
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