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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 does Claire describe Ben as being in Christine's second journal entry from Part 3: Today?

2. What does Christine see which makes her realize she's in the same room as many years ago in Part 3: Today?

3. In Part 3: Today, Christine and her husband drive for a while and Christine falls asleep, waking as they sit parked where?

4. Christine tells her husband that she has a vague memory of what in her November 18th entry?

5. In Christine's November 21st entry, she finds pictures of herself and her husband on what she suspects was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Christine wonder about her journal in the beginning of Part 3: Today?

2. What question is left for the reader and for the protagonist at the end of the novel?

3. What does Christine consider as she packs to leave in Part 3: Today?

4. What does Dr. Nash inform Christine about her friend and husband in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 20?

5. How does Dr. Nash feel about Christine's progress in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 19? How does Christine feel?

6. What is the initial conversation between Claire and Christine like in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 23?

7. What does Christine tell Dr. Nash about her husband and friend in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 21?

8. What memory of a bathroom returns to Christine in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 19? What does Dr. Nash respond when Christine tells him of it?

9. What is Claire's reaction when Christine suggests she had an affair with Ben in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 23?

10. What does Christine learn of her injuries from Dr. Nash in Part 2: The Journal of Christine Lucas, November 19?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss confabulation and the relationship between Dr. Nash and Christine. What effect does it have on the reader that Christine believes "Ed" may have injured her?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the progression of Christine's memory. How reasonable is it to believe that Christine might regain complete memory functioning? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and analyze the narrative style of "Before I Go to Sleep". How does the narration change between Parts 1 and 2? How does this affect the reader?

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