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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. What is the premise of I REMAIN IN DARKNESS?
(a) A hostage tells her story to Annie.
(b) The experience of Annie going blind.
(c) The gradual decline of Annie's mother.
(d) A young girl in the South shares her diary.

2. What does Annie describe in this chapter?
(a) Her summer vacation.
(b) The autumn leaves.
(c) Her Christmas decorations.
(d) Physical and mental changes.

3. Who is Annie's mother walking with in the department store when she is laughing?
(a) Her grandson.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Annie.
(d) Herself.

4. Annie would rather accept her mother's ____________ instead of her death.
(a) Insults.
(b) Coma.
(c) Regression.
(d) Craziness.

5. Annie finds herself feeling ____________ toward her mother.
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Mournful.
(d) Respectful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is embarrassed by Annie's mother's behavior in the department store?

2. Which of the following does Annie NOT note about the hospital?

3. Why does Annie's mother buy such an expensive handbag?

4. One of Blanche's roommates reminds Annie of _____________________.

5. One of Blanche's roommates is __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the items that Annie notes that belong to her mother and how does she plan to get rid of them?

2. How does Annie's mother begin to show violent tendencies?

3. How does Annie take care of her mother's physical needs and how does her mother's condition affect her?

4. What was the nickname Annie gave her mother when she was only five-years-old?

5. Name some of the odd functional behavior exhibited by Annie's mother during her illness.

6. Explain the irony of Annie's mother's comments as they relate to the events in Annie's life.

7. How does Annie feel when she sees a woman talking to herself while shopping?

8. What is the significance of Annie's mother dying on Easter Sunday?

9. How does Annie's mother's body make her aware of her own aging process?

10. What physical pain does Annie develop in response to her mother's illness?

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