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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. Where does Anne recognize the "man in the trenchcoat" from?
(a) The local chruch.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) His picture as a reporter for the local newspaper.
(d) When they first arrived at their new desination.

2. How does being in the church make Colleen feel?
(a) Being in the church comforts Colleen.
(b) Being in the church makes Colleen feel guilty.
(c) Being in the chuch makes Colleen nervous.
(d) Being in the church makes Colleen angry.

3. What does Father Rosetti do while he is still holding Colleen's baby?
(a) Father Rosetti gives the baby CPR and rescues him.
(b) Father Rosetti jumps off the cliff with the baby still in his arms.
(c) Father Rosetti hangs on tightly to the baby as the birds try to take it away.
(d) Father Rosetti stares at the glowing baby and claims a miracle has happened.

4. What kind of life did Anne and Justin create?
(a) Anne and Justin created a life of lies.
(b) Anne and Justin created a life of chaos.
(c) Anne and Justin created a happy, normal family with Noelle and their other children.
(d) Anne and Justin created a life of inconsistency and moving around.

5. What does Anne do when she sees Kathleen on the ledge?
(a) She uses her gun and shoots Mrs. Walsh dead.
(b) She tells Kathleen to jump so she can catch her.
(c) She runs to find help.
(d) She climbs up to the ledge to save Kathleen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Noelle going to college to study?

2. What does the doctor Father Rosetti bumps into tell him?

3. What was Noelle's first miracle?

4. Why does Father Rosetti kill Father Flannery with a pitchfork?

5. As Colleen hides in the barn, what is she thinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Father Rosetti committing suicide say about his character?

2. Why would Colleen's son come to claim Noelle?

3. Colleen is ridiculed by the people she's known and lived near for years, yet believed and supported by strangers. Why might this happen?

4. For what reason may Jamie hear "the voice"?

5. During her prayer with Father Rosetti, why would Kathleen mention how dangerous and awful the world has become?

6. How would going through labor help Kathleen remember the events of the conception?

7. What does Noelle do to perform her miracle?

8. After Monsignor Stingley gave Father Rosetti the advice about the prophecy, he was struck dead. What could this lead the reader to assume?

9. Based on Anne and Kathleen's relationship thus far, why would Kathleen ask for Anne to be present when the baby is delivered?

10. Why would Father Rosetti take the baby away from Colleen and perform the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead?

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