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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. Where does Nicholas have to fly to retrieve a heart for an eighteen-year-old patient?

2. As Nicholas is falling in love with the young waitress, he thinks she is what?

3. How many months has Paige been gone from her husband and son in the Prologue?

4. Nicholas discovers Max's first ____________ the morning he takes him to the park.

5. Where did Patrick meet May?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Nicholas handle his first attempts to care for Max on his own after Paige leaves?

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

6. What happens when Paige calls her father to tell him she is getting married?

7. What does Paige remember about her mother as she drives to North Carolina to find May?

8. What happens when Nicholas brings Rachel to the diner while Paige is working?

9. When does Nicholas realize his chances of being chief of surgery are probably ruined?

10. What does Nicholas remember about his work in an Indian reservation in Arizona?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Paige's relationship with her mother come full circle during the summer she spends with May in North Carolina?

Essay Topic 2

Describe a portrait Paige might have drawn of herself. What would she be doing in the portrait? What secret would the the portrait reveal and how?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Paige's obvious need for help and reassurance is ignored by health professionals, including her husband.

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