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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. How does Graham describe the day his bookstore opened and he met Annie and the day he and Annie wed?
(a) Two days that will live in infamy.
(b) The two scariest days of his life.
(c) The two happiest days of his life.
(d) Two wonderful days.

2. What does Frieda remember doing during most of Graham and Annie's wedding ceremony?
(a) Crying.
(b) Seething with rage.
(c) Smiling.
(d) Trying not to cry.

3. What is the problem that Annie sees with ruleless relationships?
(a) One struggles to return to a relationship that has rules.
(b) One never knows how the other is entitled to feel.
(c) One is always wanting to know the rules.
(d) One is never sure how to get out of a ruleless relationship.

4. When Annie asks Graham what is worrying him, what is his response?
(a) Store stuff.
(b) Aging.
(c) He had an affair.
(d) Their children.

5. When Annie began to weep, for what did she weep?
(a) She was weeping mostly for herself and her new life without Graham.
(b) She was weeping for her children and their loss of a father.
(c) She was weeping for Graham's book store and how she would most likely have to close it.
(d) She was weeping for Graham and his unfinished life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frieda think about the idea of getting back together with Graham?

2. In Chapter 3, for how long does Graham say he and Annie have been married?

3. Why is the book reading not cancelled?

4. What do both Graham and John have in common?

5. When Annie walks in the house at the end of Chapter 6, how does the narrator describe the look on her face?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Annie know right away that something is wrong, when she wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. How does Graham feel after his talk with Rosemary?

3. What advice does John Norris give Graham over their lunch date?

4. How does Annie try to cheer herself up and appear younger?

5. Why does Annie love her car so much?

6. What is learned about Sarah's relationship with her mother, based on what she tells Thomas?

7. Describe Annie's two past solo shows in New York.

8. What does Annie realize, towards the end of this section of the book, is changing regarding her relationship to her children?

9. How does Annie feel about Graham's body?

10. What does Annie learn about Frieda based on Frieda's reaction to the news of Graham's death?

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