View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman say surrounds the man?
(a) A halo.
(b) Blinding light.
(c) Waves of light.
(d) Shimmering light.

2. About what do the man and woman argue?
(a) War.
(b) Sex.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

3. According to Laura, what individual does Richard claim told him of Alex Thomas's whereabouts?
(a) Elwood Murray.
(b) Callie Fitzsimmons.
(c) Reenie Hincks.
(d) Winifred Griffen Prior.

4. Richard Griffen warns of what in Spain?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Nationalists.
(d) Communists.

5. What do the woman and the man do after the woman meets him when he briefly returns from the war?
(a) They sleep together.
(b) They start another story.
(c) The woman watches him while the man sleeps.
(d) The man regales the woman with details of his time overseas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura call Iris's unborn child?

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

3. What happens when the men try to leave Aa'A?

4. What does the man omit from the published story that distresses the woman?

5. The man tells the woman a story about the Peach Women of what planet?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 12, what is the significance of the yellow curtains?

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

3. In chapter 11, how does Laura send Iris a message and what does this message look like.

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

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

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

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

8. In chapter 10, the woman imagines the man in a variety of situations. Describe one of these situations.

9. According to chapter 11, how does the adult Aimee feel towards her mother and why?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 727 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample