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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. Who asks for lemonaide in the hospital?
(a) Dr. Connelly
(b) God.
(c) Ben.
(d) Telesporus.

2. What does Annie not want to do?
(a) Leave Melanie's office.
(b) Stay at Glenwood.
(c) Keep seeing Ben.
(d) Make connections between the different parts of her life.

3. What game does Ben play with Annie during their second session?
(a) Uno.
(b) Sorry.
(c) Chutes and Ladders.
(d) Life.

4. Where does Annie conduct her sessions with Ben?
(a) The playroom.
(b) Annie's house.
(c) Her office.
(d) Ben's hospital room.

5. Who does Annie suspect that Ben wants to kill?
(a) Annie
(b) His teacher.
(c) His birth mother.
(d) His adoptive mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben ask Annie to add to his painting of the barn?

2. What is the first thing Annie tells Dr. Blumefeld?

3. What was Annie's major in college?

4. What does Ben say about the sponge that Annie uses to clean paint from his hand?

5. What does Ben make for Annie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What feeling does Annie have both when she leaves Harvard and when she leaves her birthday party at Sarah's apartment?

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

3. Why is it significant that Annie does not let Ben keep the spring he finds on the playroom floor?

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

5. Why do you believe Ben refuses to see Annie for three weeks during their sessions?

6. Why does Annie dislike the clinical discussion that occurs between her classmates?

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

8. What do you believe magic represented to Ben?

9. Consider Annie's writing style during this second part of her book.

10. Why does Annie use play therapy when dealing with Ben?

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