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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. On the night that Midas disappears, what does Francie have a nightmare about?
(a) Leaving Will in the grocery store.
(b) Being unable to breastfeed Will.
(c) Her mother showing up unannounced.
(d) Lowell asking for a divorce.

2. Where did Meraud Spool meet Winnie?
(a) The National Ballet Academy.
(b) Their elementary school.
(c) The Bluebird auditions.
(d) A family holiday party.

3. Who is Elliott Falk?
(a) A reporter.
(b) An NYPD detective.
(c) The mayor's chief of staff.
(d) The police commissioner.

4. In Chapter Eleven, where does Francie go when she tells Lowell that she is leaving to meet the May Mothers?
(a) City Hall.
(b) The park.
(c) The police station.
(d) The Jolly Llama.

5. What do the police discover in the trunk of Mogaro's car?
(a) Cash.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Blood.
(d) Weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Francie from?

2. What question does Hoyt end his Chapter Ten interview of Nell with?

3. What kind of books does Colette write?

4. What is the name of the person that the first-person narrator keeps thinking about in the Prologue?

5. Where is Bodhi Mogaro eventually located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nell's theory about Token, and why does Colette believe Nell is probably mistaken?

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

3. What makes Colette feel like an impostor among the other May Mothers?

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

5. When Nell is trying on clothes in Chapter Eight, what does she begin to worry might be true about her memory of the man at the bar?

6. Who is "Token," and what is the implied source of his nickname?

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

8. What does Colette discover on the mayor's desk, and what does she do with it?

9. While Colette is out running in Chapter Eight, what source of comfort is she wishing for, and why can she not get it?

10. In Chapter Five, why are the police being criticized for their handling of Midas's case?

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