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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. Why does Iris try to go downstairs in chapter 9?
(a) She hears a noise.
(b) To try to find something.
(c) To hide something.
(d) To do laundry.

2. Who gets custody of Sabrina after Aimee dies?
(a) Laura.
(b) Richard.
(c) Iris.
(d) Winifred.

3. In Laura's Latin book, Iris finds a passage from what work?
(a) Ars Poetica.
(b) Metamorphoses.
(c) The Aeneid.
(d) Meditations.

4. Why do the men in the end decided that they are unhappy with the Peach Women?
(a) They miss Earth women.
(b) They miss conflict.
(c) They feel like everything the women do is merely a show for their enjoyment.
(d) They are appalled by the way they reproduce.

5. The woman receives a telegram informing her of what?
(a) The man is coming home in a week.
(b) The man has found a house for them.
(c) The man has died.
(d) The man has been wounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the man and woman argue?

2. Who is the man with his head on fire?

3. What does the woman say surrounds the man?

4. How does the woman react when the man asks her to leave her husband?

5. Between which two factions is the conflict in Barcelona according to the May 26, 1937 article contained in chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 13, why does Walter come over to Iris's house?

2. What message does Laura leave for Iris in her school notebooks?

3. What are Winifred's feelings toward Iris's pregnancy?

4. Why is Laura kicked out of her school?

5. How does the woman respond to the suggestion that she leave her husband before the man goes overseas?

6. According to chapter 9, why is Laura afraid of her father?

7. At the end of the chapter, Iris hears something outside her window. What does she think it is and what is it really?

8. According to chapter 13, what pact had Laura made with God?

9. In chapter 13, what revelation of Iris's sends Laura over the edge?

10. How does the man and woman's story about the blind assassin and the tongueless girl end?

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