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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 on Annie's twenty-eighth birthday?
(a) She is given a surprise party.
(b) She gets a new job.
(c) Her boyfriend proposes.
(d) Ben gives her a kiss.

2. What does Annie do as Ben plays and makes noises like a bear?
(a) Tries to match the emotions associated with his noises.
(b) Pretends to be a mother bear.
(c) Tells him to be quiet.
(d) Makes bear noises in return.

3. What does Annie throw into her wastebasket?
(a) Her painting supplies.
(b) Her Walkman and tapes.
(c) Her clothes.
(d) Notes from her sessions with Ben.

4. What does Annie eat at the hospital?
(a) Mashed potatoes.
(b) Steak.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Oatmeal.

5. What is the name of Annie's first patient?
(a) Ben.
(b) Seth.
(c) Adam.
(d) Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Annie conduct her sessions with Ben?

2. With what disorder is Ben diagnosed?

3. What object does Mary Louise show Annie in Chapter 17 that makes her want to run from the room?

4. With what does Ben hurt himself in Annie's office?

5. What is Annie's therapist's name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Annie interpret her first session with Ben after the Christmas break?

4. Who does "little Annie" represent?

5. What does Annie's act of sewing up the wound over Ben's heart symbolize?

6. What do you believe magic represented to Ben?

7. How does Ben act during his first session with Annie?

8. What new information does the reader gain about Annie while she talks to Dr. Connelly on the day he tells her they are planning to release her from the hospital?

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

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

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