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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. How does Charles, Kathleen's father, treat Anne?
(a) With gratuity.
(b) As if she's not there.
(c) With hostility.
(d) With great hospitality.

2. How is Father Rosetti best described?
(a) Handsome, healthy and true to his faith.
(b) Mean and rude.
(c) Unfaithful.
(d) Dishonest.

3. According to the Pope, what happened on October 13, 1917?
(a) That is the date the Pope was born.
(b) That is the date the Vatican was built.
(c) That is the date the Pope decided to devote his life to God.
(d) That is the date that the Virgin Mary was seen by many people, and her message was understood by three children.

4. What is unique about Kathleen's pregnancy?
(a) She is a surrogate mother.
(b) She was artifically inseminated.
(c) She is having quadruplets.
(d) She is a virgin.

5. What made Anne "reconsider her vows" and quit being a nun?
(a) She wanted to make more money.
(b) She lost faith in God.
(c) She just wasn't happy.
(d) She fell in love with Father Justin O'Carroll.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne discover when preparing for the press conference?

2. What happens to Father Rosetti on his way to Ireland?

3. When talking to Kathleen's friends, what does Anne discover?

4. When Anne takes a walk to clear her mind, how does Anne find Kathleen?

5. What is the Pope's warning to Father Rosetti?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why may the people in Colleen's town be treating her differently?

2. Why may Anne begin to believe Kathleen's story more than she did earlier in the investigation?

3. Why might Kathleen have traveled to a foreign city to have her abortion?

4. Mrs. Walsh overhears the conversation between Anne and Kathleen's friends when Kathleen's boyfriend is revealed. She now believes that Kathleen is evil. Why might Mrs. Walsh feel this way?

5. How may Kathleen's strained relationship with her parents effect the situation?

6. As Kathleen walks through the unfamiliar streets of South Boston, it is described as cold and rundown. How is this description foreshadowing the mood of the story?

7. Why may it be peaceful for Colleen to return to the place where she conceived her baby?

8. Why would Charles, Kathleen's father, attack Anne's credibility and be very hostile towards her?

9. Based on the prophecy and what you have read thus far, which girl may be carrying the child of Satan?

10. How may it be a coincidence that an outbreak of polio erupts at the hospital Kathleen leaves in Rhode Island?

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