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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. Whom do the police first question about Dana's murder?
(a) Eli.
(b) Louis.
(c) Sara.
(d) Licia.

2. What name did Jo go by in college?
(a) Felicity Sneed.
(b) Carolyn Falmouth.
(c) Allison Steadman.
(d) Felicia Stead.

3. Jo adopted the name Felicia Stead and told people she was called ________________.
(a) Licia.
(b) Fe.
(c) Feldman.
(d) Steady.

4. Whom are the police most suspicious of regarding Dana's murder?
(a) Sara.
(b) Licia.
(c) Duncan.
(d) Eli.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jo say will be necessary to keep the dog alive?

2. What is one of the things that the interviewer tells Licia she can expect to see in the group house?

3. What did Dana witness Licia say to a man in a bar to stop him from flirting with her?

4. During college, Jo lived in a group house in __________________.

5. Why did Licia give money to Duncan one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the night when Licia finds Dana's dead body in the house.

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

3. How does Jo confuse Jean Bennett when telling her how Jo knows Jean's husband, Eli Mayhew?

4. What do the police learn about each of the housemates that makes the police suspicious of them?

5. What happens to the dynamics in the group house after Dana's death?

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

7. Why is marrying Daniel quite opposite from the life she had been living in the group house?

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

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

10. How well does Licia adapt to living in the group house?

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