Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 illness does Anne's neighbor, Rick, have?
(a) Mesothelioma
(b) Diabetes
(c) Lung cancer
(d) Liver cancer

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

3. What woman do Anne and Sam visit because she is dying?
(a) Mary
(b) Mimi
(c) Millie
(d) Mona

4. What does Anne consider the next ten years of her life to be?
(a) A slide show
(b) A peaceful journey
(c) A wild trip
(d) A mess

5. What does Anne do when she has to make an important decision?
(a) She calls her mother.
(b) She goes to a psychic.
(c) She gets very quiet to see what decision brings her peace.
(d) She calls her girlfriends for advice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paley believes that women can be part of the equal rights movement without giving up _____________________.

2. What does Anne recall that Pammy had wanted desperately?

3. What is common among the children of the sixties?

4. Who is the gay man in her church who is dying from AIDS?

5. Where does Anne leave Sammy to play each day at the resort?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Anne like her activist father?

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

5. What is the reason that Anne makes Sam go to church?

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

7. What is Anne's religious experience as a child?

8. 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?

9. When does Anne first encounter Jesus?

10. How does Anne learn that she receives grace to overcome and endure?

(see the answer keys)

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