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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. How old was Annie when she started reading Freud's work?

3. What does Ben do whie he and Annie are playing the Care Bears game?

4. What does Annie eat at the hospital?

5. What game does Ben play with Annie during their second session?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Annie convince Ben that she will met with him again after Christmas break?

2. 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?

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

4. Describe the way in which Dr. Connelly appears to Annie in her dream.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain the significance of Annie and Ben's struggle after he tears the wing on his angel costume.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Consider Annie's relationship with Melanie. Do you believe that Annie really wanted to kill Melanie? Why or why not? Was Annie, as Blumenfeld suggested, trying to heal Melanie? Defend your answer with examples from the book. Do you believe that Melanie really never knew Annie, or did she change during their time together? Do you agree with Blumenfeld's description of Melanie's departure as not being a goodbye, but just leaving?

Essay Topic 3

Angels are a recurring symbol in this book. Locate at least five references to angels. Describe the meaning of these references. How do they tie together?

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