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Section 1: Prologue-Chapter Three

1. What is the name of the person that the first-person narrator keeps thinking about in the Prologue?
(a) Joshua.
(b) David.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Aaron.

2. What does the Prologue imply is the likely cause of the narrator being unprepared for her child's birth?
(a) She is distracted by her tumultuous relationship with a married man.
(b) She did not anticipate that the baby might arrive before its due date.
(c) She is not really interested in being a mother and is living in denial.
(d) She does not pay attention to the information she gets from the May Mothers.

3. How much time elapses between the Prologue and Chapter One?
(a) 10 months.
(b) 14 months.
(c) 20 months.
(d) 4 months.

4. Where does the novel take place?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Albany.
(d) Westchester.

5. Which of the May Mothers arranges the group's first meeting, in March?
(a) Nell.
(b) Scarlett.
(c) Colette.
(d) Francie.

6. What does the narrator suspect that she and Nell have in common?
(a) They are both wealthy women.
(b) They both regret getting pregnant.
(c) They both have an important secret.
(d) They are both single parents.

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