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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 happens while Louise is having her photos taken?
(a) She falls off a stool
(b) She goes into labor
(c) She sings karaoke
(d) She faints

2. What does Barbara have to showcase her marriage to Charles in 1953?
(a) New Jaguar
(b) Diamond tennis bracelet
(c) Oil portrait
(d) Silver bowl

3. Where is the group gathering in this section?
(a) Hospice
(b) Starbucks
(c) The Club
(d) Hospital

4. Betsy comments on the musical and ______________ word "cancer".
(a) unavoidable
(b) irrevocable
(c) hideous
(d) startling

5. When does Viv tell her mentors that she plans to marry?
(a) In six months
(b) In three months
(c) In less than a month
(d) In a year or so

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Canoe take the women and their daughters downtown?

2. Which one of the women does the photographer shoot pictures of?

3. Which one of the girls is taken home for using profanity?

4. Where had Viv been enrolled in college?

5. Which one of the book club members dies overnight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Judy's friends integrate and make themselves welcome with the other hospice guests?

2. How does Viv reconcile leaving school and getting married?

3. What do the women mean about the beginning of the end?

4. What is the setting of this section?

5. How did Viv sell herself out by giving in to societal norms?

6. What do the women worry about regarding Him and their daughters?

7. Who is the popular child-rearing expert whose advice the women closely follow?

8. Why will the women spend Christmas at the hospice?

9. What is the setting for this section?

10. Describe the sad Christmas spent by the women at the hospice.

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