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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. Who hires Anne Fitzgerald?
(a) Kathleen's family.
(b) Kathleen.
(c) The Cardinal of the Catholic Archdiocese in Boston.
(d) The city of Boston.

2. Where does Kathleen seek solace for her "crazy thoughts"?
(a) In her bedroom.
(b) At her parents' country house.
(c) On the beach near her house.
(d) Sitting in the garden.

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

4. How do Kathleen's parents feel about her pregnancy?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy they are going to be grandparents.
(c) Confused and stressed.
(d) Devastated.

5. What happens to Father Rosetti when he was entrusted with the prophecy of the church?
(a) He falls ill with a debilitatiting sickness, and now hears a "voice" in his head.
(b) He brags that he knows about the prophecy and blackmails the church.
(c) He dies.
(d) He is kidnapped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first female character to be introduced?

2. How is Jamie's personality described?

3. What is it about the nightmares that make them so awful?

4. What city does Kathleen travel to?

5. Why does Father Rosetti feel pressure to solve this mystery of the virgin pregnancies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might "the voice" represent?

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

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

4. How might Kathleen have felt when she found the doctor and nurse dead in the office?

5. For what reasons would Kathleen's mother want to keep Kathleen's friends away from her?

6. Doctor Shapiro performs another exam on Kathleen and also claims that she is a virgin. Doctor Shapiro is not connected with the church. Why is his exam more important to Kathleen than the results received by doctors before?

7. 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?

8. Why would Kathleen find comfort floating in the ocean?

9. Colleen is attacked by a group of boys upon leaving her house and a bird saves her. What might this bird represent?

10. Why would Anne's first assignment be to go to Los Angeles?

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