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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 Annie feel as she drives to Vermont in Chapter 15?
(a) She feels uncomfortable.
(b) She feels relief.
(c) She feels regret.
(d) She feels nervous.

2. What are the two main reasons for the differences between the Kahn home and Annie's home?
(a) The mothers and fathers.
(b) Location and number of children.
(c) Money and the mothers.
(d) The fathers and the size of the homes.

3. What does Sarah say she did not realize about her house growing up, in Chapter 23?
(a) It was very clean.
(b) It was beautiful.
(c) It was very large.
(d) It was shabby.

4. What is the reason Frieda gives for why Graham would have an affair?
(a) He was lonely.
(b) His physical needs were complex.
(c) His Grahamness. His appetite for everything.
(d) He never could love just one person.

5. What now makes Annie so afraid of the memory she had forgotten?
(a) She is sure she will not be able to forget this memory again.
(b) She is afraid she has demensia.
(c) She is concerned she has a mental illness.
(d) She is worried she will forget her memories of Graham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a metaphor used by the narrator for Annie being freed from her own family by spending time with the Kahns?

2. What does the looseness of Annie's childhood home mean to her and her siblings?

3. What is Frieda's physical reaction when Annie tells her the woman Graham had an affair with was in Graham's office at the end of the party?

4. What gift had helped propel Annie into her career as a photographer?

5. Why is Frieda not a part of the scattering of Graham's ashes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does being a caretaker of Claire make Frieda feel?

2. What bonded Annie and Sofie?

3. Why does Edith feel sorry for her ex-husband, Mike?

4. How does Frieda feel, in the end, about hearing Annie constantly vent about Graham's betrayal?

5. How does Annie describe the changes that took place when she and Graham were at the lake house?

6. How do Sarah and Lucas find themselves in the same situation regarding their parents and their expectations of them?

7. How does Frieda acknowledging Graham's affair get her into a tough situation with Annie?

8. Why does Annie feel relief when Sarah leaves at the beginning of Chapter 14?

9. What is Graham's argument, as shared by Annie, regarding why people read fiction?

10. When Annie sees Sofie Kahn's name on the announcement board, how does she react?

(see the answer keys)

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