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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. With what is Sam afflicted?
(a) Heart murmur
(b) Colic
(c) Jaundice
(d) Down Syndrome

2. Where does Anne host a post-Baptism party?
(a) The beach
(b) A local restaurant
(c) A local park
(d) Pammy's house

3. How did Anne spend the final months of her father's life?
(a) Drunk or high
(b) Traveling
(c) Out of the country
(d) Working

4. In what month are the diary entries written for Part 4?
(a) November
(b) February
(c) March
(d) September

5. What is a regret that Anne has during the Christmas season?
(a) That she never got her Master's Degree
(b) That her father did not live long enough to meet Sam
(c) That she never had a ballet career
(d) That she never joined the Peace Corps

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Anne attribute some of Sam's colicky behavior?

2. In addition to Pammy, who serves as a labor coach for Anne

3. What does Anne wish about Sam?

4. What does Anne admit is one of her worst personality traits?

5. What do Pammy and her husband struggle with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about Anne's addictive behavior?

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

3. What is the premise for Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

4. What is the state of Sam's development in Part 10?

5. Anne's thirty-sixth birthday and her deceased father's birthday complicate Anne's emotional state?

6. How has Sam's arrival influenced Anne's relationship with her mother?

7. Where does Anne regularly take Sam?

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

9. How is Sam formally initiated into a church family?

10. What symbolism does Anne find in the way Sam has learned to crawl?

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