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Discussion Questions

March Monroe is returning to college to complete her degree many years after leaving school to marry Jeff and raise a family. What are her feelings toward the decisions she made as a young woman? What are her feelings about returning to school as an adult?

There are few events in life that we get a chance to do over again. If you could relive any aspect of your youth-knowing what you know now-would you do it? What would you do differently and why?

March says that “relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of “Let's Make A Deal.” How do the various relationships in Multiple Choice prove that quote either true or false? Do you find it true in your own experience? Can you think of any other game title that March might have used?  “Chutes and Ladders?”  “Beat the Clock?”

Do tell. Are there any Ahndrayuhs in your neighborhood? How about David Callahans in your workplace? And, tell the truth, are there thongs in your underwear drawer? Is your husband a boxer or a brief man?

After March's first radio show, she stops to buy dinner on the way home, and hopes the woman ringing up her purchases will recognize her voice. Have you ever had a moment of almost fame like that, when you thought the world might stand up and take notice, but it didn't quite turn out that way? Do we all still dream of our fifteen minutes of fame? Would we settle for five?

The phrase “karma is a boomerang” appears several times in the course of the book.  Do you believe this is true? Does March? Give some examples of March's karma-related behavior.

When book groups met to discuss MUST LOVE DOGS, they often served Sarah's Winey Macaroni and Cheese, made without butter and with white wine instead of milk, and served in wine glasses for best effect. What might your book group, real or imagined, serve when discussing MULTIPLE CHOICE?
“I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.” Do you think this speaks to March's need to people please or is it about time management? Or is it both?  Is this quote true for most women? Do you think we all reach a point in our lives when we realize we don't want to be all things to all people?

Mothers and daughters share a complicated and profound union, built on years of mutual observation. How do March and Olivia demonstrate their intimate knowledge of one another's behaviors and needs during the course of the book? In what ways are they strangers?

What do you think Claire Cook should write about in her next novel?