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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 one way that helped Joe's mother learn English?
(a) Watching American TV.
(b) Going to English language classes at night.
(c) Speaking and listening to Joe's father.
(d) Listening to American radio.

2. What does Ethan call his father?
(a) An angry capitalist.
(b) An overthinker.
(c) A dreamer.
(d) A happy capitalist.

3. What does Schuyler do with Alastair when they are at the pub one night?
(a) They smoke illegal sustances.
(b) They get drunk and pass out in the street together.
(c) They take off into the night and leave Maribel behind.
(d) They make plans to travel around Europe.

4. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Joe say his mother is good at doing?
(a) Balancing working with family life.
(b) Arguing down prices on fruit being sold in the street.
(c) Working hard to support her family.
(d) Following the beliefs and values of Buddhism.

5. What task does Maribel's mother encourage her to do after Schuyler's death?
(a) Help her weed the yard and garden.
(b) Apply to graduate school programs.
(c) Take up knitting.
(d) Help her kill the weevils in her garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maribel meet Schuyler?

2. Who does Ethan's sister end up marrying?

3. When does Ethan tell his family that his new love interest is a man?

4. What presents do Ethan's sister and mother receive when his father returns home from Thailand?

5. Where did Maribel grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Maribel describe how she feels after becoming romantically involved with Schuyler?

3. In Chapter 3, how is the hotel described that Schuyler and the crew stay in?

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

5. How does Veronica handle losing her husband, Schuyler, after he is killed overseas?

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

7. What surprises Joe about Veronica's relationship and marriage to Schuyler, her husband?

8. What originally happens to Schuyler's money after he is killed?

9. Describe Ethan's childhood. How does he feel about his father traveling often to Asia for work?

10. How does Abby, Gil's first wife, handle the news about her husband's secret?

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