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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 Laura's volunteer organization do?
(a) Clean up parks.
(b) Work at soup kitchens.
(c) Read to little children.
(d) Work at the hospital.

2. What color are the curtains in the woman's imagined apartment?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

3. What is the name of the organization with which Laura volunteers?
(a) The Christinas.
(b) The Marys.
(c) The Abigails.
(d) The Marthas.

4. In chapter 13, Iris recounts the start of what war?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) The French Canadian War.

5. What is the name of Iris's daughter?
(a) Adelia Laura Griffen.
(b) Amanda Winifred Griffen.
(c) Adelia Iris Griffen.
(d) Aimee Adelia Griffen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Aimee's biological father?

2. What does Iris say she finds most memorable about her time on the ship save for her interactions with her sister?

3. Who does Iris suspect might be Myra's true father?

4. Laura is scared by her father dressing up as what character when she and Iris are children?

5. Who is the inspiration for the woman in the sub novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Iris choose to respond to the message left by her sister?

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

3. According to the article at the beginning of chapter 12, what are Richard's views about Germany?

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

5. About what does the woman dream at the end of chapter 12?

6. Why is Laura kicked out of her school?

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

8. In chapter 9, how does Laura behave towards Richard?

9. In chapter 13 what is the state of Iris and Richard's marriage?

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

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