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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 is the name of Lucy's sister?
(a) Lillian.
(b) Mary.
(c) Sally.
(d) Lucy.

2. From what cause did Ed, Janie's father, die?
(a) Influenza.
(b) A stroke.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Lung cancer.

3. Who is Bridget?
(a) Cecilia's cat.
(b) Cecilia's aunt.
(c) Cecilia's older sister.
(d) Cecila's younger sister.

4. On what date of the month was Janie murdered?
(a) 24.
(b) 30.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

5. What television show had Janie liked to record onto videotape?
(a) Summer Heights High.
(b) Sons and Daughters.
(c) Fawlty Towers.
(d) Angry Boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location does Cecilia find a mysterious letter at the start of the novel?

2. At what location does Tess run into Connor in Chapter 16?

3. Mary and Lucy are depicted as having watched how many teens die in a Berlin Wall-involved protest on television?

4. What is Cecilia's surname?

5. In Chapter 20, Rachel brings the videotape of Janie and Connor to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Around what allusion does the novel's preface center and which themes does it introduce?

2. With what aspect of Tess's own personality does contact with Connor get her in touch?

3. Discuss a literary device Moriarty uses to portray a particular character's emotional response.

4. For what object had Cecilia been searching prior to the novel's opening?

5. What themes are introduced by the epigraph Moriarty includes at the beginning of The Husband's Secret?

6. What behavior of John-Paul's upon his return home encourage Cecilia not to worry about the letter?

7. To what conclusions does Lucy come regarding the development of a relationship between Will and Felicity?

8. When Cecilia comes to believe that she is having a nervous breakdown over John-Paul's news, what is her reaction to the realization and why?

9. Provide an example from the novel that displays masterful use of an omniscient narrator.

10. What information about their father John-Paul do Cecilia's daughters share with her before she opens the letter?

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