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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 the name of Annie's first patient?

2. What does Ben refer to when he talks about "magic" paper?

3. What does Ben do to Annie that bothers him so deeply?

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

5. What is Annie unable to do in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do you believe magic represented to Ben?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Prepare a character sketch for Annie. Be sure to include aspects such as 1. background, 2. changes in emotional status through the course of the novel, 3. Annie's multiple personalities and what parts of Annie these personalities represent.

Essay Topic 2

Prepare a character sketch for Melanie. Be sure to include aspects such as 1. physical appearance, 2. technique in working with Annie, 3. Melanie's role in the novel, 4. who Melanie represents to Annie.

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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