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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Alix drink with her guests as Emira leaves in Chapter 9?
2. Who leaves with Emira to go take care of Briar in Chapter 1?
3. Where does Emira work besides at the Chamberlains' house?
4. Why does Emira think Kelley is taking things slowly with her?
5. What surprises Emira about Kelley's friends when she meets them in Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some important reasons why Emira likes her job looking after Briar so much?
2. In Chapter 6, what gift does Alix give to Emira that has some significance to Emira?
3. When does the reader realize that Alix and Kelley dated in high school?
4. How does Alix feel about her old housekeeper from her childhood, Claudette, and why?
5. Why does Emira ask the Penn State shopper to delete the video he took of her?
6. What happens when the Penn State shopper starts filming Emira's interactions with the security guard at the grocery store?
7. What story does Kelley tell Emira about his high school girlfriend to demonstrate how rich she was?
8. Why do Alix and Peter move to Philadelphia?
9. In Chapter 6, why does Alix look at Emira's phone surreptitiously and regularly?
10. Why does Mrs. Chamberlain ask Emira to take Briar to the grocery store late at night in Part I?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of Kelley's phrase, "I think it would be best if we went our separate ways, and if those paths never again connected" (95)? Why is the phrase so devastating to Alix when Emira intentionally uses it at the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
How does Emira react to being caught in the middle of Kelley's and Alix's awkward reactions to meeting again after so long, and to each character's attempts to shape Emira's perception of the other? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why does Emira often feel as if she is lagging behind her closest friends, Josefa, Shaunie, and Zara, in reaching the milestones of adulthood? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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