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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has followed Kathleen to the Newport Hospital?
(a) A group of reporters.
(b) Kathleen's entire family.
(c) Protestors.
(d) The Polio illness.

2. Why does Kathleen continue to have "crazy thoughts"?
(a) She worries there is something wrong with the baby.
(b) She keeps hearing the "voice."
(c) She is stressed about school.
(d) She can't deal with pregnancy and feels trapped.

3. Why does Colleen feel briefly connected to the gypsies?
(a) Because they lived their lives the way she wanted to live hers.
(b) Because they both are free spirits.
(c) Because they were both different from everyone else.
(d) Because neither one of them feel that there is a place they call home.

4. In what city does Anne encounter an epidemic of polio?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

5. What happens to Kathleen as she prepares for the conference?
(a) She gets very nervous and starts to cry.
(b) She hears "the voice" again.
(c) She remembers how she got pregnant.
(d) She realizes she forgot the paper with the information she wanted to say.

6. What word would best describe the sound Kathleen hears at the clinic?
(a) Annoying.
(b) Fuzzy.
(c) High-pitched.
(d) Evil.

7. What city does Kathleen travel to?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) Newport.
(d) Los Angeles.

8. How is Jamie's personality described?
(a) Rude and obnoxious.
(b) A stubborn young man.
(c) Confident, but with "inner insecurities."
(d) A kind and generous young man.

9. Why does Kathleen take a trip to this city?
(a) To go shopping.
(b) To get an abortion.
(c) To go to a concert.
(d) To visit family.

10. Where does Kathleen believe her baby was conceived?
(a) She can't remember.
(b) On a weekend trip.
(c) At a football pep rally.
(d) At her sixteenth birthday party.

11. What does Anne discover when preparing for the press conference?
(a) That Kathleen's friends know what happened eight months earlier.
(b) That Kathleen's mother has been keeping Kathleen away from her friends.
(c) That Kathleen has been lying to her the entire time.
(d) That Kathleen's mom treats Kathleen poorly.

12. Despite her situation, what does Kathleen try for the first time after her discovery at the clinic?
(a) She tries shellfish.
(b) She tries alcohol.
(c) She tries to commit suicide.
(d) She tries step aerobics.

13. Whom is Sister Katherine, Father Flannery, and Father Rosetti searching for?
(a) Kathleen.
(b) Someone who knows the prophecy.
(c) Colleen.
(d) The Pope.

14. How does Colleen resemble Mother Mary?
(a) Colleen is a strong-willed woman.
(b) Colleen is sweet and genuine.
(c) Colleen is shocked over her current condition,.
(d) Colleen is alone in a small town with no real friends or companions.

15. Who goes to visit Colleen in Ireland?
(a) Cardinal Rooney.
(b) Kathleen.
(c) Father Rosetti.
(d) Anne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Colleen feeling during her last few weeks of pregnancy?

2. How do Kathleen's parents feel about her pregnancy?

3. What is the relationship between Anne and Father Justin O'Carroll, the new investigator hired to help her?

4. Why is Doctor Shapiro's opinion more important to Kathleen than the opinion of the other doctors who have examined her?

5. Even though Father Rosetti is troubled, what does he continue to think about?

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