1.    trees : Heather ::
A.    obedience training : pit bull
B.    rain : puddles
C.    lampshades : lamps

2.    Heather : people ::
A.    oil : water
B.    bored cat : mouse in bathtub
C.    sap from a happy Maple tree : clean hands

3.    anger : Heather ::
A.    category 3 hurricane : windmill
B.    double-shot of espresso : eight-year-old boy
C.    the pope : a highly educated nun

4.    Heather as a scared child : weeping willow ::
A.    late library book : student's locker
B.    pretty blond rocker chick : parking lot
C.    mole trying to survive : untouched snow

5.    Melanie : Heather ::
A.    peach : pineapple
B.    mortgage seeker with bad credit : banker in television
        commercials with bad lighting
C.    homework : dancing

6.    Melanie : love ::
A.    swimming pool : lifeguard
B.    spilled milk : tears
C.    bear at the end of winter : food

7.    Heather : love ::
A.    black hole : everything
B.    event horizon : paperclip
C.    nuclear bomb : big bang

8.    Melanie : fortunes from an inheritance : :
A.    outdoor wedding : white tent
B.    guest bed at grandma's house : dead great-aunt’s quilt
C.    a subway pole : germs

9.    lying : Heather ::
A.    Boston cream doughnuts : traffic cops
B.    walking : turtles
C.    oxygen release : common Alder tree

10.   Heather : good intentions ::
A.    bees : honey
B.    oil painting done in impressionist style : gilded frame
C.    husbands who kill their wives : weepy press interviews
        to find missing wife

11.   a happy family : Melanie ::
A.    religion : most people throughout time
B.    freckles: shirtless Irishman sailing on a boat in August
C.    fingers : ten

12.   a happy family : Heather ::
A.    bishops : cardinals
B.    bachelorhood : King Henry VIII
C.    seeds : bananas

13.   beginning of Heather and Melanie's friendship : joy ::
A.    cult run by a charismatic hirsute man : salvation
B.    crabapple : shade from the sun
C.    holy water : miracle

14.   road trip and camping : the summer Heather quit her job
        after meeting Melanie ::
A.    orgasms : men 
B.    visiting out-of-state colleges : parents and their sixteen-
        year-old child 
C.    movies : chain video stores

15.   Heather : Melanie's trust ::
A.    internet comments on news articles : faith in humanity
B.    Hayman fire : Pike National Forest
C.    All of the above

16.   Heather's profitable betrayal : Melanie’s final bitterness ::
A.    finger in the mouth : teething
B.    third love : familiar heartache
C.    trying : failing

17.   Melanie : medium life ::
A.    Heather : short life 
B.    Heather : medium life
C.    Heather : long life

18.   Heather : Melanie’s inheritance ::
A.    the fourth dimension : dodo bird
B.    nice weather : mint plant in the garden
C.    absence : fondness

19.   vague guilt : Heather lying in bed before getting up in the
       morning and drinking coffee in a one-room cabin that flies
       an antique American flag from its window and allows her to
       breathe the freshest air since childhood ::
A.    geese  : Canada in February
B.    silent movies : 1930s
C.    tumbleweed : ghost town

20.   forest : Heather ::
A.    city : mouse
B.    white sheet of paper : typed words
C.    San Francisco : pet parrots who have escaped

21.   seventy years : Heather ::
A.    sugar and butter :  shortbread
B.    long ever-flowing river : smooth storm-colored stones
C.    magazines : pile next to toilet

22.   Melanie's forgiveness : Heather ::
A.    satisfaction : supersized extra value meal plus chocolate milkshake
B.    Mother Earth's waning mercy : human race
C.    maple syrup : verticillium wilt

23.   Heather : praying ::
A.    illiterate blind person: Braille
B.    fiscal solvency : balancing checkbook
C.    baby : catching bubbles