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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. Who is Harrison Harding?

2. What does Cam do while he and Mia wait in the car outside the flower shop for Allie to carry in supplies?

3. Where does Cam tell Allie he is going so that he can take Mia on a trip?

4. Who does Ellen and Angus leave a spot for as the trial starts?

5. What does Mia spill in Cam and Allie's car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maggie's best friend say on the stand when the prosecutor asks her if she is angry with Jamie for killing Maggie?

2. What does Allie do when a man flirts with her at a bar where she is drinking her sorrows away?

3. What does Cam say and do while he is on the witness stand?

4. What happens in Cam's dream at the end of the novel?

5. Why does Jamie think he hasn't seen or felt Maggie since her death?

6. What several things happen the Monday morning after Cam and Mia's trip to New Hampshire?

7. Why does Graham ask Allie to help him with Jamie's case?

8. What does Cam do when the private detective locates Mia for him?

9. How does the coroner almost ruin the prosecution's case against Jamie?

10. What does Allie do after discovering Cam is having an affair with Mia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dicuss the quote at the beginning of Part II in terms of who and what you think Picoult is referring to. Who was bold in their actions? Was mercy received and was it what the character(s) is expecting it to be?

"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy." -Shakespeare, Timmons of Athens

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the theme of love was used in Mercy not just as romantic love, but love of country and duty to family.

Essay Topic 3

What are Cam's contradictory convictions and how does he struggle with them throughout the novel? Does he finally resolve them by the end of the story?

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