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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 sight irritates Anne so that she has to focus on something else?
(a) Hippies with long hair hanging down their backs
(b) A mother slapping her child
(c) A large man with a hairy chest takes off his shirt
(d) A driver who cuts her off on the freeway

2. Why does Anne not allow Sam to accept the gift?
(a) Sam does not like baseball.
(b) She does not like him to watch TV.
(c) He does not have any place to use it.
(d) He will not be ready for at least ten years.

3. Who does Anne befriend when she is sixteen?
(a) Billie
(b) Barbara
(c) Bee
(d) Betsy

4. What news arrives as Anne prays for Pammy's cure?
(a) Pammy is cured
(b) Pammy could adopt a baby girl
(c) Pammy is going to hospice
(d) Pammy had died

5. Why do Anne and Sam go to Idaho?
(a) Anne is a lecturer at a writer's conference.
(b) They want to visit Hemingway's grave.
(c) They want to go fly fishing.
(d) Anne has a job interview.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a typically cheerful woman in the church become morose?

2. What do Anne and Sam see coming in from the mountains in Idaho?

3. What is unusual about a man Anne sees on a trapeze set at the resort?

4. Why does Anne say she always prayed at night?

5. On what day does Anne make Sam skip cartoons before school as a sign of respect for the dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does an Ash Wednesday morning, which Anne means to be filled with respect, turn out completely the opposite?

2. What is Anne's philosophy about bad things happening?

3. Why does Anne think she may be failing Sam?

4. How does Anne change her perspective about Sam's classmate's mother?

5. What does Anne consider to be the first miracle she witnesses?

6. Anne's friend, Pammy, learns that she can adopt a baby at the same time that she learns she is dying from cancer. How does Pammy think about her new daughter during this time?

7. What is the perception about religion in Anne's home as she grows up?

8. How is Anne like her activist father?

9. How does Anne know that Sam has forgiven her for the cartoon episode of that Ash Wednesday morning?

10. How might the example of Anne's stalled car be considered a traveling mercy?

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