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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 news does Colette reveal to the May Mothers at the park in Chapter Two?
(a) She is writing a new book.
(b) She has hired a full-time babysitter.
(c) Winnie is a single mother.
(d) She believes that Token is interested in Winnie.

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

3. Where is the narrator as she narrates Chapter One?
(a) In a mental health facility.
(b) In prison.
(c) In a television studio.
(d) In hiding.

4. In Chapter Nine, where does the narrator say she is considering moving to?
(a) Panama.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Portugal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Eleven, where does Francie go when she tells Lowell that she is leaving to meet the May Mothers?

2. What is surprising about Colette's appearance when she opens the door to her apartment in Chapter Seven?

3. What does Nell claim not to remember about the night at the bar?

4. What job did Alma have in Honduras?

5. What does Mogaro's attorney suggest is the primary reason for the police's suspicion of Mogaro?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Francie remember about Mr. Colburn, her high school science teacher?

2. In Chapter Nine, what has changed about the narrator's situation?

3. How do Chapters One through Three characterize Nell?

4. When Colette arrives home after her run in Chapter Eight, what do she and Charlie argue about?

5. What is revealed about Colette's mother in Chapter Seven?

6. When she is being questioned by the police, what does Nell have a hazy and disturbing memory of?

7. How does Chapter One hint at trouble in the narrator's childhood?

8. What does Nell have tattooed on her arm, and what does it mean to her?

9. How do the narrative perspective and point of view shift from the Prologue through Chapter Three?

10. What does Winnie leave on the table at the bar, and where does it eventually end up?

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