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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Onset, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tony say at the beginning of Chapter 1 that Zenia would do "earnestly, with a catch in her voice, a quaver of suppressed grief, or... haltingly, as if confessing"?
(a) Lie.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sing.
(d) Beg for forgiveness.

2. What is the weather like on the day Tony decides to use as the starting point for Zenia's story?
(a) Cold and snowy.
(b) Bright and clear and unseasonably warm.
(c) Humid.
(d) Rainy.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what has been erased, bandaged over and deliberately snarled?
(a) Roz's marriage to Mitch.
(b) Tony's marriage to West.
(c) Zenia's accounts of herself.
(d) Tony's career.

4. In Chapter 1, why does Tony feel compelled to know Zenia's motivation?
(a) She doesn't know.
(b) To understand her own reactions to Zenia's behavior.
(c) To help Charis and Roz heal.
(d) To understand Zenia's relationship with West.

5. At the end of Chapter 1, from what does Zenia return?
(a) The dead.
(b) The hospital.
(c) Jail.
(d) A trip to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator in the first chapter of "The Robber Bride"?

2. Who says in Chapter 1 that "A disaster is a disaster; those hurt by it remain hurt, those killed remain killed, the rubble remains rubble"?

3. In Chapter 1, what does Tony say comes unraveled if you "pick any strand and snip"?

4. What date does Tony decide to use as the starting point for Zenia's story?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, where does Tony have lunch?

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