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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news do Tom and his family discover in Chapter One?
(a) Lila has finally remarried.
(b) Tom's father recently passed away.
(c) Savannah has tried to commit suicide again.
(d) Tom's brother decided to move back home.

2. Which of the following events does NOT happen during the family picnic?
(a) Henry spits at his daughter.
(b) Luke vows to pray that his father dies in Korea.
(c) Henry calls Tom a girl.
(d) Lila is violently shaken by her husband.

3. Tom and Savannah admittedly resent their parents because ___________.
(a) They separated before the children could know their father.
(b) They used their children as ammunition during their own battles.
(c) They participated in racist rallies and demonstrations.
(d) They refused to spend any time with the children while growing up.

4. Where is Melrose Island located?
(a) Outside Long Island Sound.
(b) Near a shipping town in North Carolina.
(c) Among the Florida Keys.
(d) Off the coast of South Carolina.

5. Tom is determined to discover ____________.
(a) Why Lila refuses to admit that anything traumatic happened to the children.
(b) Why Dr. Lowenstein keeps her emotional distance from him.
(c) Why Savannah has become psychotic.
(d) Why his wife has decided to leave him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following types of imagery dominates the Prologue?

2. Why does Henry light a candle at the statue of the Infant of Prague?

3. Chapter Two flashes back to the 1970s when Tom is a _____________.

4. What does Tom do while waiting for Bernard in Central Park?

5. How much time has passed since Tom and Luke went to visit their sister in New York?

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