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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 name of Annie's first patient?

2. What is little Annie's real name?

3. How long did Ben live in a windowless room in his crib?

4. What does Ben suggest he and Annie do the first time they go outside together?

5. How old is Dr. Connelly in Annie's dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Connelly warn Annie to stay away from when he releases her from the hospital?

2. What does Dr. Connelly suggest to Annie's sister that they do for her?

3. What has Ben's life been like prior to his time with Annie?

4. When Annie researched Ben's past, what did she find out about his first foster home?

5. What is it about the letter from Dr. Connelly that upsets Annie so badly?

6. Who does "little Annie" represent?

7. In what way is the bird that Ben paints connected with the bird that Annie paints?

8. What bothers Annie about Ben's behavior during their sessions?

9. What is your opinion of Annie's relationship with Melanie, her own therapist?

10. Describe the collages that Annie makes while in the hospital.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Prepare a character sketch for Annie. Be sure to include aspects such as 1. background, 2. changes in emotional status through the course of the novel, 3. Annie's multiple personalities and what parts of Annie these personalities represent.

Essay Topic 2

Goodbyes and the effect these goodbyes can have on people is a major theme of Annie's novel. Ben struggles with his abandonment by both his birth mother and his first set of foster parents. Annie, meanwhile, is devastated by her father's suicide and her parents' disappearance when she was a small child in the hospital as well as an abandonment by her therapist, Melanie. Discuss the way in which Annie builds upon her own lost relationships in order to make her parting with Ben as painless for Ben as possible. Discuss also Annie's hurt from her own badly ended relationship with her therapist. In what ways does Blumenfeld help Annie to heal from this traumatic ending?

Essay Topic 3

Prepare a character sketch for Telesporus. Be sure to include aspects such as 1. physical appearance, 2. his role as one of Annie's personalities, 3. his role in the novel.

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