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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 does Garrett do when Theresa arrives for their first date?
(a) He suggests they should go up river.
(b) He takes the boat on the ocean.
(c) He suggests they eat before going out on the ocean.
(d) He suggests that they take the boat out later.

2. What does Theresa grieve about during in Chapter 1?
(a) The loss of her job and financial security.
(b) The loss of love and intimacy in her life.
(c) The loss of a friend.
(d) The absence of her son.

3. What does Theresa show Deanna when Deanna finds her crying?
(a) The message from the bottle.
(b) The published column.
(c) The final divorce papers.
(d) The receipt from the hotel.

4. What does Garrett work on most of the morning following his date with Theresa?
(a) Cleaning his boat.
(b) His boat's engine.
(c) He works in the shop.
(d) He does not work.

5. Who books the flight to Wilmington for Theresa the first time she wants to go to Wilmington?
(a) Theresa.
(b) Brian.
(c) Theresa's assistant.
(d) Deanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Theresa Osborne struggle to balance in her life?

2. What does Theresa do to relax and think about the decision whether or not to let Deanna publish the message?

3. What does the author imply about messages in bottles?

4. What excited Theresa about finding the message in the bottle?

5. What is obvious about the man and woman in the message found by Theresa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Garrett feelings after inviting Theresa on board his boat?

2. Do you think removing information to identify who wrote the letter makes the moral ambiguity disappear?

3. Why did Theresa divorce David and what happened with him afterward?

4. What were the two main uses of messages in a bottle throughout the years?

5. What was Theresa excited about before she read the message in the bottle she first found on the beach?

6. How did Catherine die?

7. How did Garrett and Catherine meet?

8. What surprises await Theresa when she returns to work on Monday following the publication of the message?

9. How does Theresa make contact with Garrett?

10. Why was Theresa in Cape Cod during the summer prior to the beginning of the story?

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