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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 concern of Francie's does the Chapter Two May Mothers email cover?
(a) Sleep training.
(b) Colic.
(c) Returning to work.
(d) Breastfeeding.

2. What is Nell's line of work?
(a) Investment fund management.
(b) Medical equipment sales.
(c) Public policy analysis.
(d) Information security.

3. What is the name of the television show that Winnie was on as a teenager?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Whispers.
(c) Cupcake.
(d) Bluebird.

4. What does Francie immediately notice about Colette's apartment?
(a) It is cluttered.
(b) It is huge.
(c) It is very cold.
(d) It has a strange smell.

5. When the May Mothers meet at the bar and decide not to talk about their babies, what kind of books do they immediately begin discussing?
(a) Breastfeeding.
(b) Infant education.
(c) Sleep training.
(d) Child psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Francie from?

2. What motivates Antonia Framingham to donate money to the NYPD to assist in finding Midas?

3. Who arrives at Colette's apartment just as she is about to explain what is in the file she copied?

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

5. In Chapter Eight, how does Nell injure herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Francie bring a camera with her to the park in Chapter 10?

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

3. How does Bodhi Mogaro's attorney explain away the evidence against Mogaro?

4. How do Chapters One through Three characterize Francie?

5. How do the Prologue and Chapter One characterize the narrator?

6. In Chapter Eleven, what does Francie decide the police need to investigate further?

7. When the police arrive at Nell's to question her, what memory from her past temporarily confuses her?

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

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

10. What do the Prologue and Chapter One make clear was the father's reaction to the narrator's pregnancy, and why?

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