Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Prologue and Part 1

Reading Check

1. Where do Doyle and her wife go in the prologue’s opening anecdote?

2. At what age does Doyle believe children begin to become “tamed” by society’s expectations?

3. What eating disorder did Doyle once suffer from?

4. What does Doyle confess to her couple’s counselor in her individual session?

5. What animal does Tish become obsessed with helping?

6. Whom does Doyle refer to as “The Golden Ones”?

7. What object given to her by her grandmother did Doyle cherish when she was a child?

Multiple Choice

1. What kind of animal is Tabitha?

A) dog

B) cheetah

C) elephant

D) monkey

2. What event in her life does Doyle credit with reawakening the wildness inside her?

A) her first daughter’s birth

B) meeting Abby

C) leaving the Catholic church

D) attending therapy

3. What Biblical story does Doyle recall studying in her CCD class?

A) Noah’s Ark

B) Daniel and the Lion’s Den

C) David and Goliath

D) Adam and Eve

4. Why is Doyle so angry at her husband when they decide to get couple’s therapy?