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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. Where does Cam find Mia the next afternoon following Jamie's confession?
(a) In Allie's flower shop.
(b) In his kitchen.
(c) In a diner.
(d) In his bedroom.

2. Why is Jamie despondent after he is released from jail?
(a) He can't afford a lawyer.
(b) He wants to be in jail.
(c) He can't feel Maggie.
(d) He is falling in love with Allie.

3. What does Cam tell Allie he would do if she murdered someone?
(a) Lie for her.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Protect her.
(d) Turn her in.

4. Who does Allie visit first in Jamie's hometown?
(a) Jamie's neighbor.
(b) Maggie's doctor.
(c) Maggie's mother.
(d) Jamie's mother.

5. As the novel begins, the woman puts all her husband's possessions from her house in ______ on the front lawn.
(a) Garbage bags.
(b) The pond.
(c) Wooden crates.
(d) Liquor boxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allie find in the spare bedroom at Jamie's house?

2. Which defense does Graham thinks is too risky to use for Jamie's trial?

3. Why does Allie sneak out of her flower shop and over to the police station?

4. How long have Cam and Allie been married?

5. What time of year is it as the story begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jamie dislike the prosecutor in his case?

2. What is the epiphany Jamie has while attending the library lecture?

3. What kind of wife is Allie to Cam?

4. How did the Clan McDonald end up settling in Wheelock, Massachusetts?

5. What does Allie offer to do while Jamie goes into the police station with Cam after he confesses to murder?

6. Why does the woman wrap the stained glass panel in newspaper and hide it behind the toilet?

7. What is one of the valuable objects of her husband's that the woman gives away for pennies at the yard sale?

8. What proves to Allie that is was a good decision to hire Mia to work in her shop?

9. What does the reader sense about Cam's feelings for Mia after they are introduced in his kitchen?

10. Why does Angus McDonald leave Scotland and move to Wheelock?

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