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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine does Cedar describe producing in Part I?
(a) Disciple.
(b) Love.
(c) Zeal.
(d) Faith.

2. What name was Cedar given when she was born?
(a) Anna Potts.
(b) Mary Agnes.
(c) Mary Potts.
(d) Mary Stewart.

3. Whom does the narrator address in the opening of Part I?
(a) The reader.
(b) Her unborn child.
(c) Her lost love.
(d) Her parents.

4. From what narrative perspective is the novel related?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person.
(d) First person.

5. For what show does Cedar say the Songmakers have traditionally taken out their old-fashioned TV from the closet?
(a) Jeopardy.
(b) Sixty Minutes.
(c) Masterpiece Theatre.
(d) Morning Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mother first appears to Cedar, Cedar describes her face as being round and white like what?

2. What type of person does Cedar describe herself as in Part I?

3. What does Cedar tape to the cover of the hardbound journal in Part I?

4. How does Cedar describe Mother's hair in Part I?

5. About how tall is Eddy described as being?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha?

2. How is the situation described when Cedar witnesses her first accosting and detainment of a pregnant woman in Part I?

3. What did Eddy study in college? Where did he study?

4. What does the lizardlike bird that Cedar observes in Part I represent?

5. How is Mother described when she first appears to Cedar? Where does she first appear?

6. What are Cedar's spiritual/religious beliefs like?

7. Why is Cedar going to an Ojibwe reservation in Part I?

8. What publication does Cedar produce? What is its subject?

9. What does Cedar stock up on in preparation for the apocalypse? Why?

10. How is Little Mary described when her character is introduced?

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