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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 is the House of Magdalena?

2. What name did Angel give to Virgil Harper?

3. In Chapter 23, how does Angel describe the way love feels to her?

4. Why did Angel decide to leave Michael for the third time?

5. Where did Angel want Michael to find a husband for Miriam?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Angel continue to make yearly visits to the House of Magdalena?

2. How does Angel discover Elizabeth's opinions concerning whom Miriam is in love with? What is Angel's reaction?

3. In Chapter 32, what is the conflict between newlyweds Miriam and Paul?

4. What happens when Angel and Michael are alone in Joseph Hochschild's store in Chapter 23?

5. In Chapter 26, how does Elizabeth pregnancy influence Angel's opinion of herself and the future?

6. In Chapter 29 when Angel goes to San Francisco, how does God intervene to help her stay away from prostitution?

7. In Chapter 22, Angel gets a glimpse of a talent other than prostitution that might help her to make a living. How did she discover it, what is it, and where does she put it to use?

8. In Chapter 32, how does Angel find her true calling?

9. in Chapter 33, why and where does Paul go look for Angel? How does this journey effect him?

10. What does Paul think of Miriam? What is his reaction to her and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

From Angel's point of view, consider the love she received from her mother, the Duchess and Duke versus the love she experienced from Michael, the Altmans, and God.

Essay Topic 2

In addition to Angel, what other characters tried to escape their circumstances? What were the situations that they wanted to break away from, and how did they attempt to achieve this? Were they successful? Compare/contrast their experiences with Angel's as well as the end results.

Essay Topic 3

In the book, unforgiving Paul is the foil to Michael's God-like portrayal of grace. Compare and contrast these two characters, and discuss how both Paul and Michael have evolved by the end of the book. Give specific examples of their spiritual growth and the effect that it has on those around them.

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