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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 time do Nicholas and Paige go to the hospital the morning after Max has emergency surgery?

2. Regarding Paige, Nicholas is sure his mother would never what?

3. How long does Nicholas' friend the lawyer tell him it will take to get a divorce?

4. Who is Paige talking to as she stumbles around the Government Center?

5. What position does Paige take at the hospital to be near Nicholas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nicholas discover as he looks into divorcing Paige?

2. How does Nicholas become the acting chief of cardiac surgery?

3. How does Nicholas react to Paige's artwork at the hospital?

4. What does Nicholas do after finding Paige nearly unconscious on the sidewalk?

5. What does Nicholas think he sees during the surgery that Paige gets to observe?

6. What does Paige do after waking up in Nicholas' bed?

7. How does Nicholas feel when he discovers Paige with Max at his parents' house?

8. Where does Paige go and what does she do after she sees Max with all the tubes still in him from surgery?

9. What does May eventually tell Paige is the reason she left her years before?

10. What do Paige's drawings reveal when Astrid asks Paige to draw a self portrait?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Paige feels about motherhood, as is shown through her feelings about her own pregnancy and memories of her mother.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Paige's obvious need for help and reassurance is ignored by health professionals, including her husband.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Paige's reaction to thinking Max is dead, is the culmination of everything Paige believes and everything that has happened to her since her childhood?

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