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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 happens to Anne's newly purchased used car?
(a) It rolls into a car in a parking lot.
(b) It skids on wet pavement.
(c) It dies at a stop sign.
(d) Its brakes fail and she hits a tree.

2. What happens on the second night of the lecture series?
(a) Anne and Grace follow the original plan.
(b) Grace gets ill and cannot participate.
(c) Anne gets ill and cannot participate.
(d) The presentation is a flop.

3. What activity does Anne recall doing with Bee?
(a) Playing with their Easy-Bake ovens
(b) Joining the Girl Scouts
(c) Going swimming every day
(d) Sticking their fingers in their belly buttons

4. What quality does this woman have that Anne approves of?
(a) Perseverance
(b) Integrity
(c) Grit
(d) Sassiness

5. Who is Sam's friend?
(a) James
(b) Jaden
(c) Josh
(d) Justin

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the message on Anne's father's answering machine?

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

3. What does Anne do when she realizes Sam is watching cartoons?

4. Where do friends invite Sam to go for his birthday?

5. Why do Anne and Sam go to Idaho?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Anne and Sam are at Ixtapa for vacation, they are both still mourning the death of Anne's friend, Pammy. What happens to alter Anne's perspective a little?

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

3. What does Anne mean by "Traveling Mercies"?

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

5. How does Anne become a true member of a church?

6. Why does Anne go to the home of her friend, Shelly?

7. Why is the arrival of Pammy's daughter such a bittersweet occasion?

8. One day Anne sits next to a man on a plane who notes the cross on a chain around Anne's neck and asks if she is a born-again Christian? How does Anne respond?

9. What is the symbolism Anne speaks of when she talks about "pieces of Pammy"?

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

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