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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 was Anne's mother's reaction to Anne's pregnancy?
(a) She was shocked
(b) She was thrilled
(c) She was angry
(d) She was disappointed

2. What does Anne begin to feed Sam?
(a) Goat's milk
(b) Apple juice
(c) Water
(d) Soy formula

3. What type of parent will Anne soon become?
(a) Mother in a married couple
(b) Single parent
(c) Stepmother
(d) Divorced mother

4. What does Anne call her messages from God?
(a) Miracles
(b) Operating instructions
(c) Divine intervention
(d) Spiritual guidebook

5. From what disease did Anne's father die?
(a) Pancreatic cancer
(b) Lung cancer
(c) Brain cancer
(d) Colon cancer

Short Answer Questions

1. What suggestion from the doctor does Anne resist about Sam's colic?

2. What are the party-goers impressed by?

3. Where does Anne regularly take Sam?

4. What does Anne think about Sam at this point?

5. What issue does Anne worry that Sam will wonder about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the emotional complications surrounding the legal motions initiated by Sam's father.

2. What is the nature of the depression that Anne experiences in Part 8?

3. How has Anne reconciled her negative experiences during the seventh and eighth grades?

4. How does Anne end her journal of the first year of Sam's life?

5. What is the devastating news learned about Pammy and what does Anne do to cope?

6. What treatments and coping mechanisms is Pammy using to fight her cancer?

7. What is the relationship between Anne and Sam's father?

8. What is Anne's delivery experience?

9. Explain the irony of Pammy still taking care of Anne even though Pammy is the one with the terminal illness.

10. How does Anne exhibit what she calls one of her worst personality traits?

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