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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine pick up absently and take downstairs with her in Part 3: Today?

2. What does Christine's husband go to get when he locks her in the room in Part 3: Today?

3. What is Claire's profession in the novel?

4. Where does Christine find the envelope she'd picked up from her husband's desk in the hotel room in Part 3: Today?

5. What does Christine feel the continuing guilt of having done in the beginning of Part 3: Today?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Christine believe her husband brought her to this hotel in Part 3: Today?

2. What photo album does Ben show Christine in Part 3: Today? What is new about it?

3. What question is left for the reader and for the protagonist at the end of the novel?

4. What name comes to Christine in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 18? How?

5. What guilt does Christine write of feeling in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 20? What does she decide to do about it?

6. What intimate action takes place between Dr. Nash and Christine in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 21? What happens?

7. What does the first entry from the envelope from Ben's desk say in Part 3: Today?

8. What does Christine learn of her injuries from Dr. Nash in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 19?

9. What memory of a bathroom returns to Christine in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 19? What does Dr. Nash respond when Christine tells him of it?

10. What does Christine find in her house that makes her decide to trust her husband in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 21?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss confabulation and the relationship between Dr. Nash and Christine. What effect does it have on the reader that Christine believes "Ed" may have injured her?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the discrepancies between Dr. Nash's story of Christine's injury and the story told to her by Ben. Why does Christine believe Ben may be hiding information from her?

Essay Topic 3

Describe MRIs and the medical procedures for brain research. What is the information which Dr. Nash hopes to learn by mapping Christine's brain?

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