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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anne do to manage the news about Pammy?
(a) Starts drinking again
(b) Focuses on Sam
(c) Goes into denial
(d) Looks up information

2. What alternative form of treatment does Pammy try?
(a) Hypnosis
(b) Colon cleanse
(c) Medicinal marijuana
(d) Probiotics

3. What is Pammy's frame of mind?
(a) Optimistic
(b) Resigned
(c) Depressed
(d) Scared

4. How does Pammy seem when she returns home?
(a) Exhausted
(b) Fatalistic
(c) Rejuvenated
(d) Pale and wan

5. Anne feels as if everything she owns is _____________.
(a) A gift
(b) Second-hand
(c) Worn out
(d) Irreplaceable

6. How does Anne feel when she goes out with friends?
(a) She misses Sam
(b) She is grateful for a break from Sam
(c) She is too tempted to drink
(d) She never wants to go home

7. Who regularly gets to spend time with Sam?
(a) Anne's mother
(b) Anne's brother
(c) Anne's neighbor
(d) Anne's father

8. What is beginning to wear on Anne?
(a) The responsibilities of motherhood
(b) Not going to the office anymore
(c) Not being in a relationship
(d) The routine and sameness of her life

9. What does Anne consider Sam's presence in her life to be?
(a) A nuisance
(b) A miracle
(c) A chore
(d) A mistake

10. Anne recalls that her brother had to write a school report on what subject?
(a) NASA
(b) Birds
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) British royalty

11. Pammy tells Anne that she ______________________________.
(a) Is terrified of dying
(b) Has made out her will
(c) Is going to hospice
(d) Lives in the moment

12. What do Anne and Pammy use to escape Pammy's illness?
(a) Marijuana
(b) Sam
(c) Wine
(d) Day trips

13. What lesson could Anne learn from Pammy?
(a) Save more money each month
(b) Get better health insurance
(c) Don't be too concerned about what may happen
(d) Makeup makes you feel better even if you're sick

14. What is Anne trying to avoid with her coping mechanism?
(a) Deep despair
(b) Illness
(c) Ignoring Sam
(d) Post Partum Depression

15. Why does Anne stop seeing a man she had been attracted to?
(a) He is lazy
(b) He is too old
(c) He is a Republican
(d) He is unstable

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sam seem to enjoy babbling and making noises?

2. In what direction does Sam crawl?

3. Why does Anne resist her urges to drink or get high?

4. What does Pammy spend a lot of time doing lately?

5. What illness is Pammy stricken with?

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