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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. How old is Dr. Connelly in Annie's dream?

2. What does Annie do as Ben plays and makes noises like a bear?

3. What does Ben want to do the first time they go outside in the spring?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who does "little Annie" represent?

9. What do you believe magic represented to Ben?

10. What does Dr. Connelly warn Annie to stay away from when he releases her from the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the second section of Annie's novel entitled "Silence." How does Annie use her writing in this section of the novel to allow readers to understand what is going on in her mind? Compare and contrast Annie's writing style in this section of the novel with her writing style in the other sections of the novel. Use specific examples from the text to support the points that you make in describing the writing styles of each section of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Prepare a character sketch for Ben. Be sure to include aspects such as 1. physical appearance, 2. changes in behavior as he works with Annie, 3. his background and 4. his role in the novel.

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