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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 happens in Martha's gender seminar that causes others to find out she is pregnant?

2. Martha considers herself to be a _________, which is why she hasn't told anyone about her pregnancy.

3. What does John suggest that Martha do if she should find out anything is wrong with the baby?

4. What does Martha wake up to in the middle of the night after feeling ill during the day?

5. What does the person Martha interviews say that Adam wants her to stop doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Martha find out that she might not have been rescued as she thought she had?

2. What happened to Martha when she is going down the stairwell during the emergency?

3. What happened right when John leaves for his next trip for his consulting job, so he doesn't know this has happened?

4. What were the two medical issues that John and Martha faced when he returned from his trip overseas?

5. What were some of the symptoms that Martha would experience during her pregnancy because of an undiagnosed medical condition?

6. What happened to Martha that leads her to have to tell others that she is pregnant, even though she doesn't want to do so?

7. Why didn't Martha leave the apartment right away when the grocery store incident happened?

8. Why did John try to persuade Martha to abort the baby, as they sat in a cafe?

9. What did Martha and John plan to do when they were on a Christmas holiday from Harvard?

10. What happened to Martha after she begins to feel ill all day, though she ignores it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A faculty member tells John that he will never reach his goals if he has the child.

Part 1: Why do you think the teacher tells John that he won't reach his goals?

Part 2: Do you agree with the opinion of the faculty member?

Part 3: How do you think John could have responded to the faculty member?

Essay Topic 2

Martha, at first, decides that she will hide her pregnancy from others since she's not sure how she feels about it either, it seems.

Part 1: Do you think Martha should have told more people about her pregnancy?

Part 2: Why do you think Martha might have thought hiding her pregnancy was the best idea?

Part 3: How do you think Harvard might have reacted to learning about Martha's pregnancy?

Essay Topic 3

The book itself is a memoir, told from the perspective of Martha as she learns about giving birth to a child who has Down Syndrome.

Part 1: Why do you think bringing up a child with Down Syndrome is more difficult?

Part 2: How might you respond if you heard your child was to be born with Down Syndrome?

Part 3: Do you think a person should abort a child if they know they're going to have developmental disorders?

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