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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 is May's neighborhood called?
(a) Hendries Lane.
(b) Duck Woods.
(c) Richardson's Circle.
(d) Robeson View.

2. What does May wonder watching Lindy do things in her house?
(a) What it is like to work so hard on a home.
(b) What it is like to have kids.
(c) What it is like to be married.
(d) What it is like to always be cheerful.

3. What did May's mother always used to love at Christmas?
(a) The town tree lit up
(b) The candles in the windows.
(c) The red velvet coat she wore.
(d) The songs.

4. Who does Leo think has the responsibility to teach kids to drive?
(a) The brother.
(b) The father.
(c) The mother.
(d) The sister.

5. What does Lindy remember about her own mother?
(a) She did not like Lindy.
(b) She was always exercising.
(c) She was always working.
(d) She did not let Lindy have friends over very often.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does May decide to visit first?

2. What did May's mother say she knew before she was born?

3. What does May always eat at Leo's?

4. Who does May ask to dinner with her early in Part I?

5. Who is Vanessa's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is May's job and how does she feel about it?

2. What does May think about her cat, Hester?

3. What tree is May responsible for planting at the university?

4. In Part I, what saying does May see on a bag that intrigues her?

5. Why does May dislike cut flowers?

6. What does Amber Dwight's story inspire May to do?

7. What name does May say she has come up with for Sue's landscaping company from Sue's dream?

8. What good memory does May mull over of time with her mother in Part II?

9. What does Lindy confess to May?

10. Why does the university give May a 4-week sabbatical?

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