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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. Where do Luke and Meggie honeymoon?

2. How is baby Dane different from his sister?

3. Why does Archbishop de Bricassart disagree with the Pope?

4. How does Luke take the news that Meggie is pregnant?

5. Whom does Justine meet in Rome?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three major decisions that Luke makes, without consulting Meggie, in the first part of their marriage?

2. Why doesn't Meggie attend Dane's ordination?

3. What happens to Dane after his ordination?

4. What are the Cleary brothers like?

5. What previously introduced character reappears in Chapter 17, and what is this character's story?

6. How do Meggie and Luke feel about her pregnancy?

7. What happens to the twins in New Guinea?

8. What are Meggie's ideas about marriage?

9. What does Justine decide to do instead of attending college, and how does her family react to this news?

10. How does Meggie ensure that Luke will never question the paternity of their child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the character of Mary Carson. Why do you think she still supported Father Ralph after he would not have a sexual relationship with her?

Essay Topic 2

Father Ralph is an ambitious man. If he had known from the beginning that Dane was his son, would the story have changed? If so, in what way(s)? If not, why? Meggie did not want to humiliate Luke, but what other reasons might she have had for keeping the truth about Dane's paternity a secret? Do you think Meggie thought it might change things or perhaps figuratively back Father Ralph into a corner? Support your answers with details from the book.

Essay Topic 3

From the time the Clearys are introduced, the reader forms impressions about the family. What are your initial reactions to Fiona and Paddy? Do you see them as good, bad or just two people trying to do the best they can? How does that impression change, if it does, as the story unfolds?

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