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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 many different clinics did Louie work in?

2. Where did Parker's parents say that she and Parker should join them the next time they went?

3. After Izzy put a tourniquet on Louie, how many hours could he keep it on before there would be muscle or nerve injury?

4. What was the name of the nurse practitioner that Olive regularly saw at the clinic?

5. How many years ago had Vonita had an abortion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What music did Joy listen to while she was in the recovery room and why?

2. What were Wren's thoughts about the waiting room at the Center?

3. At noon, what did Izzy see when she looked in a supply closet?

4. Why did Vonita create the Center?

5. Why was Olive at the Center?

6. What did Izzy do when George told her to move away from Louie?

7. Why did Wren punch at boy when she was four, and what did her father do about it?

8. When did Janine have an abortion and why?

9. Why did Bex change her mind about going into the Center with Wren?

10. What story did Louie tell Joy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hugh and George are both single fathers who love their daughters very much. What do George and Hugh have in common? What makes them different? How have experiences made the men who they are?

Essay Topic 2

Before the scenes with the standoff, the author shares the ordinary things in characters’ lives. Why does the author focus on the ordinariness of life? Why are the ordinary things in live so important?

Essay Topic 3

Wren thinks of herself as a woman when she decides to have sex and get birth control. In what ways is Wren still a little girl? How does Wren realize what makes an adult? Why does she realize it is not sex? What does she realize makes an adult?

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