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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 is Tea Bags called in pyschological terms?

2. What is Annie doing in her dream in Chapter 13?

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

4. What does Ben ask Annie for when he leaves the playroom his last visit before Christmas break?

5. What was Annie's major in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Annie feel that the doctor who examines her at the hospital is trying to do?

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

3. Describe the collages that Annie makes while in the hospital.

4. When Annie researched Ben's past, what did she find out about his first foster home?

5. Describe Ben's reaction when he accidently hits Annie with a stick while playing outside.

6. Why do you think that Ben thought that he could not be hurt?

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

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 has Ben's life been like prior to his time with Annie?

10. Why do you believe that it is significant that Annie is no longer remembering large chunks of her day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who do you believe the little girl is that Annie sees at the beginning of the book? What about the girl in the doctor's office when Annie is admitted to the hospital? Who is the girl who plays chess with Telesporus when Annie is in the hospital? Do you believe these girls are different girls, or the same one? It is known that Annie had multiple personalities. Are these girls fragments of herself, or do they represent Annie as a young child? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In a poem to Ben, Annie writes that, "What you fear most has already happened." As Annie is in therapy with Blumenfeld, she discovers that the line refers to her own life as well as Ben's. 1. What do you believe this line means? 2. How does it refer to Ben's life? 3. How does it pertain to Annie's life?

Essay Topic 3

Goodbyes and the effect these goodbyes can have on people is a major theme of Annie's novel. Ben struggles with his abandonment by both his birth mother and his first set of foster parents. Annie, meanwhile, is devastated by her father's suicide and her parents' disappearance when she was a small child in the hospital as well as an abandonment by her therapist, Melanie. Discuss the way in which Annie builds upon her own lost relationships in order to make her parting with Ben as painless for Ben as possible. Discuss also Annie's hurt from her own badly ended relationship with her therapist. In what ways does Blumenfeld help Annie to heal from this traumatic ending?

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