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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 does Maribel say eventually vanishes?
(a) Love.
(b) Money.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Beauty and youth.

2. Where does Ethan's father often travel to for work?
(a) Australia .
(b) Europe.
(c) Asia.
(d) Cananda.

3. Where did Maribel grow up?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Qatar.
(c) UAE.
(d) Yemen.

4. What is Joe's occupation?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Financial management.
(d) Website development.

5. Why does Joe's mother send Jack away?
(a) To get him away from gangs.
(b) To better his education.
(c) To give him the chance to meet his real father.
(d) To improve his physical health.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schuyler describe Maribel when she has been drinking?

2. When Joe and Veronica talk on the phone, what does Joe tell her he can do for her?

3. When Gil stays at Nok's house, what does he call her?

4. What does Gil brag about?

5. What catastrophe happens to Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the structure of the novel help readers understand the secrets to happiness?

2. After four weeks of filming, how does Maribel describe her and Schuyler's morning routine?

3. After Gil suffers from a second stroke, where does he go and who takes care of him?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 2, how can Joe's relationship with his high school girlfriend, Veronica, be described?

5. How is Jack described by Joe in Chapter 2? Why does Nok worry about him when he is a teenager?

6. How does Ethan react to his father's secret?

7. After Ethan phones his mother to say Gil probably missed her, how does Abby react?

8. After Schuyler dies, what scary dream does Veronica dream about?

9. What does Maribel say she gets out of her relationship with Schuyler?

10. Why do Schuyler and Maribel start crying after hearing the historian give a lecture about nineteenth century working conditions?

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