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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 Plough want Vanessa to do after graduation?
(a) Get her teaching certificate.
(b) Seek professional therapy.
(c) Enter the graduate writing program.
(d) Write a novel.

2. According to Vanessa on page 263, what was Strane’s misfortune?
(a) His dark addictions.
(b) Falling in love with her.
(c) HIs love of Nabokov.
(d) His blind faith.

3. How does Plough describe Vanessa on page 350?
(a) As a conundrum.
(b) As a riddle.
(c) As a stumper.
(d) As an enigma.

4. Where does Plough accost Strane?
(a) The supermarket.
(b) The local dog park.
(c) Vanessa's apartment.
(d) A Browick faculty event.

5. According to Vanessa on page 246, she never had a chance to be what?
(a) Happy.
(b) Normal.
(c) Free.
(d) At peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Taylor react when Vanessa describes her relationship with Strane as the stuff of love stories?

2. Where does Vanessa take her dog at the end of the novel?

3. According to Vanessa on page 265, what did her teenage self do to Strane?

4. Which of Plough’s seminars does Vanessa take in the spring semester of her senior year?

5. How does the now-dead Strane appear to Vanessa on page 189?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vanessa discover while working in the urology department of her father’s hospital?

2. How does Vanessa feel regarding her impending graduation from college? What does Strane say about it on page 270?

3. How does Strane react to his encounter with Plough? How does Vanessa react to it?

4. Who is Craig, and how does Vanessa meet him? What happens between them?

5. Who is Jo and how does she get her name?

6. What package does Vanessa receive in the mail following Strane’s death? What effect does this package have on her?

7. What does Strane say to Vanessa when he calls her on page 187? How does he sound? How does she react to his call?

8. What does Strane demand of Vanessa following his interaction with Plough?

9. What does Janine tell Vanessa on page 232, and how does Vanessa feel about Janine’s choice of words?

10. How does Vanessa rationalize Strane’s actions on page 260?

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