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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Martha and John arrive at the start of this chapter of the book?
(a) The school.
(b) Home.
(c) Hospital.
(d) Harvard.

2. What did Martha have to do for herself because there were so many medical professionals looking at Adam?
(a) Head to the bathroom alone.
(b) Get her food.
(c) Ring the emergency buzzer.
(d) Discharge herself.

3. What does John decide to begin to arrange when he arrives back from his trip overseas?
(a) Classes.
(b) Home health care.
(c) Katie's daycare.
(d) His new job.

4. Adam shows to John that ______ things always have a good side to them, according to the story.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Bad.

5. What does John feel when he talks to his adviser about the progress of his dissertation?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Sad.
(c) Happy.
(d) Relieved.

6. What does Martha feel touch her when she recalls asking someone to help her save her baby?
(a) A breast.
(b) A mouth.
(c) A pair of lips.
(d) A hand.

7. What is the final pronunciation of Adam's medical status, according to Martha's description?
(a) Needs more pain killers.
(b) Needs life support.
(c) Healthy.
(d) Needs more time in the womb.

8. How might the people who want Martha and John to not have their baby be described?
(a) Boring.
(b) Absent.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Unintelligent.

9. What test was the one that confirmed the diagnosis of Down Syndrome in Adam, according to her account in the story?
(a) Amniocentesis.
(b) Ultrasound.
(c) X-ray.
(d) Blood test.

10. What was Adam's first response to the therapy he received when he was in this new place?
(a) Terrified.
(b) Happy.
(c) Bored.
(d) Calm.

11. The fact that Martha and John are still ________ candidates during the pregnancy causes them a lot of stress.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Master's.
(c) Political.
(d) PhD.

12. Martha believes that Adam was sent into the world to ________ her and her husband, according to her account in the story.
(a) Teach.
(b) Avoid.
(c) Strengthen.
(d) Connect with.

13. What is the name of Martha's cousin who takes her out one afternoon?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Anna.
(c) Julie.
(d) Katie.

14. _________ begins to read all they can on Down Syndrome, even though they find it all dark and depressing.
(a) Martha.
(b) John.
(c) Sibyl.
(d) Katie.

15. What does Martha begin to experience when John is away on another business trip?
(a) Pain.
(b) Contractions.
(c) Bleeding.
(d) Hallucinations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor give to Martha when she is in the hospital? Reasons she should not ____________.

2. Why didn't Adam go home for the first few days of life, according to her account in the story?

3. Where was Martha before she comes home to her father crying about the diagnosis of Adam?

4. What does John's dissertation advisor say that John will never get because he allowed Martha to have the baby?

5. What is the name of the nurse practitioner that tells Martha that her child might have Down Syndrome?

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