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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 bedtime story does Mariah try to tell Faith?

2. What is the title for the official in the Catholic church whose sole responsibility is to find holes in cases of proposed sainthood?

3. How many people come to early mass on October 10?

4. What is Shekhinah?

5. What court does Judge Rothbottam preside over?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Mariah put people in her dollhouse?

2. Why does Ian want to persuade Mariah to let Faith attempt to heal Michael?

3. Why does Father Joseph call Monsignor O'Shaughnessy?

4. When did Father Rampini decide to become a priest?

5. Why does Rabbi Weissman call Rabbi Daniel Solomon?

6. What does Ian tell Mariah about his childhood?

7. Why does Father MacReady think Faith sees God as female?

8. What does Mariah dream the night after she and Ian make love?

9. What did Mariah do as a child when a classmate told her she would go to hell if she was not baptized?

10. How was Rafael Civernos healed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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."

Essay Topic 2

At one point in the novel, Millie tells Mariah that Faith will see her through the crises in Mariah's life. Explain whether Millie means Faith, the child; faith, a belief in something; or that both faith and Faith will see Mariah through the troubles in her life. Also explain how Millie believes Faith and/or faith will help Mariah.

Essay Topic 3

At the beginning of the novel, Millie tells Mariah that "being a family isn't a social construct, but an instinct." Using examples from the novel, explain why family is not a social construct, but an instinct.

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