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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie wonder about?

2. Who talked Fiona out of having an abortion?

3. What does Maggie remember as the car speeds along the Pennsylvania highway?

4. What else does Maggie remember?

5. What happened when Jesse quit high school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. How is Maggie and Ira's life symbolic of the journey they take together in the novel?

2. Would you say that life is a journey that we embark in alone?

3. It is then our choice to pick a partner for the ride?

4. How is the drive from Baltimore and back symbolic of their relationship?

5. Is it important that the whole book happens in one day?

Essay Topic 2

1. Define post postpartum depression. Does it sound like Fiona went through this?

2. How did you over come her feelings?

3. Who helped her through the time?

4. Why wasn't Fiona's mother around to help her?

Essay Topic 3

1. The theme of Regret reoccurs often in the book.

2. If you were Maggie, what would you regret?

3. What about Ira?

4. How would you change either characters life so that there were no regrets?

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