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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 is the name of Ian's company?

2. What does Millie Epstein think about the people who surround Mariah's house?

3. At the end of September, why doesn't Faith want to go to school anymore?

4. What book did Ian write in 1997?

5. In August, why is Colin at a playground during the lunch hour?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mariah agree to take Faith to the library to get the book her guard told her about?

2. What did Mariah do when she attended a circus the year she was seven?

3. What are certain things that Mariah does not like to talk about?

4. How does a clown entertain Faith before the show?

5. Describe Mariah's home.

6. What does Faith realize when her mother begins saying, "Oh, God. God. Oh my God."?

7. Why, from the beginning, did Mariah believe that she and Colin were not meant to be together?

8. Why does Mariah want Faith to talk to a Priest?

9. In Chapter 3, does Mariah believe that Faith may be talking to God?

10. What happened the first time Mariah found Colin in bed with another woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Mariah hires Joan Standish to handle her divorce from Colin, Joan says that Colin has done Mariah a favor this time. Explain what Joan means by this statement and argue whether Colin did or did not do Mariah a favor by filing for divorce.

Essay Topic 2

Argue whether a faith in God is a blind faith. Use examples from the novel to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

At the beginning of Chapter 15, Picoult uses a quote from Sophocles. Explain how the novel shows that "[c]hildren are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

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