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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 Quinn, Frankie's boyfriend after Gil, see that is unique about Frankie's job as a doctor's office receptionist?
(a) She is well positioned to steal pharmaceutical drugs.
(b) She comes in early and has the office to herself most mornings.
(c) She has a perfect view of the safe in the office.
(d) She works late and sees how the doors are specially locked and unlocked.

2. What is the first documentary Tara makes about?
(a) Sea urchins.
(b) Desserts.
(c) Urban rats.
(d) Kathmandu.

3. Where is Bud when he learns his father has died?
(a) A post office in Udon Thani.
(b) A hotel in Chiang Mai.
(c) A restaurant in Udon Thani.
(d) A bar in Manila.

4. After meeting her ex-boyfriend, Bud, on Skype, what does Rachel say is happening in the U.S. while Bud is Southeast Asia?
(a) The rich are getting richer.
(b) Women are fearing for their lives.
(c) Childcare is unaffordable to most middle class families.
(d) Weed is becoming legal in more states.

5. After Bud quits his job, who does he think he sees on 5th Avenue, window shopping around Christmas time?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister, Cecie.
(c) The ghost of his dead father.
(d) His brother, Dillion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character from the novel's previous chapters does Bud meet?

2. Who is Bud's girlfriend at the end of his college years at UMASS?

3. What does Rachel say she prides herself on after she helps move her brother into his new apartment?

4. Rachel's brother calls her one day to say he feels better. What does he tell Rachel that he finally ate?

5. What movie does Tara's father take Frankie and her sister to go see after their return to the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bud runs away from home for the first time?

2. How does Rachel react to the news that her brother's boyfriend, Kirk, is making him leave his apartment?

3. How does Bud describe his relationship with Sally?

4. How does Tara describe her childhood upbringing in Kathmandu?

5. What does Tara's former boyfriend, whom she dates in her 20s, tell her about money?

6. What does Bud learn about from his childhood friendship with Sally?

7. When Frankie quits her job at the doctor's office, how does her then boyfriend, Quinn, react?

8. What idea does Bud come up with for temporary employment while living at Lizzie's apartment?

9. Why does Frankie, Tara's mother, turn down Gil's marriage proposal when they are 19?

10. When Bud brings a date, Phoebe, to his sister's wedding, what does she say to his family?

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