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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 is happening on the night that Paige goes into labor?

2. What does Paige use in a test to determine if she is having a boy or girl?

3. What is the name of May's show horse?

4. How do Astrid and Robert react to Nicholas' plans to marry Paige?

5. Why does Paige run away from Chicago after her high school graduation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory does Paige have about her mother in a recurring dream?

2. How does Paige meet Jake, who eventually becomes her boyfriend in Chicago?

3. Why does Paige make a list of all the things she can do well?

4. How does Nicholas handle caring for Max while he works?

5. What happens the day Nicholas goes to his parents' house to tell them about Max?

6. How did May end up owning the show horse, Donegal?

7. What does Paige tell May about Nicholas when her mother asks her to describe him?

8. What does the private detective hired by Paige discover about May's whereabouts?

9. Why does Paige decide to go to Chicago after she impulsively leaves Nicholas and Max?

10. How does Paige get a job at the diner, Mercy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Paige's reaction to thinking Max is dead, is the culmination of everything Paige believes and everything that has happened to her since her childhood?

Essay Topic 2

Patrick O'Toole tells Paige the story of Cuchulainn and Dechtire. What does the story symbolize and how is it used throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 3

What is the meaning behind the title of the novel, Harvesting the Heart?

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