View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Toxique, Chapters 50-55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tony's father, Griff, behave in Chapter 23 once his wife leaves him?
(a) He is a lot happier and remarries.
(b) He starts beating Tony.
(c) He becomes drunk and depressed.
(d) He leaves Tony in the care of relatives.

2. What does Zenia start borrowing from Tony in Chapter 25?
(a) Her textbooks.
(b) Her car.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Money.

3. How did Charis and Zenia originally meet?
(a) They were once coworkers.
(b) They both lived in McClung Hall as university students.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They were once neighbors.

4. What vision does Charis have when staring into a candle flame in Chapter 54?
(a) That Zenia is pregnant.
(b) That Billy is about to return to her.
(c) That Zenia is dead.
(d) That Augusta is going to get married.

5. What domestic metaphor does Tony use in her lecture in Chapter 1?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Vacuuming.
(c) Weaving or knitting and sewing scissors.
(d) Dusting.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 39, what does Roz think is a better name for Zenia than "The Robber Bride"?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what has been erased, bandaged over and deliberately snarled?

3. In Chapter 8, for whom does Charis mistake her daughter Augusta when she appears unexpectedly at Charis's back door?

4. In Chapter 55, what secret is revealed to Roz by Boyce and Larry?

5. What was Charis's name before she changed it to Charis?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 266 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample