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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. Who is Daniel?
(a) Jo's brother.
(b) Jo's husband.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) Insurance salesman.

2. Chapter 3 uses what literary technique to show events that happened in the past?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Climax.
(d) Allegory.

3. Where does Licia sleep because she is afraid to sleep alone?
(a) At a hotel.
(b) In Larry's room.
(c) Her parents' home.
(d) In a dorm.

4. Why did Licia promise to style Dana's hair?
(a) Dana had been feeling low and needed to be cheered up.
(b) Dana cut it herself and was unhappy with it.
(c) Dana was going to a banquet and wanted to look nice.
(d) Dana was a bridesmaid and wanted a special look.

5. What pet did Jo have while growing up?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Horse.
(c) None.
(d) Dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jo rarely go?

2. What does Jo realize as the source of her vivid memories lately?

3. What decision does Eli make about his dog?

4. Who is the husband of Sadie's professor?

5. Where does Jo's mother live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jo say might account for her feeling off during dinner with Daniel?

2. How is Jo impatient with Daniel's needs when she wants to talk, and how does she try to mend things on Sunday morning?

3. What are the circumstances in which Jo meets Daniel?

4. Why does Licia seem to fit in so well with the group members who seem to have no real plans?

5. Who is Dana, and how does Licia (Jo) meet her?

6. How does the author use foreshadowing in the situation regarding the euthanasia of Eli's dog?

7. What is the premise of WHILE I WAS GONE?

8. What does Dana think Licia might be when she catches Licia in lies?

9. How do Jo and Daniel reconnect and then marry?

10. Explain Jo's secretive life in Cambridge in 1968.

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