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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 finally find Max after he finishes his surgery?

2. Who saves a baby on a Indian reservation when Nicholas thinks he should do a C-section?

3. Where did Patrick meet May?

4. What is Paige watching when Max falls off the couch?

5. What does the Lamaze instructor ask Nicholas to put on during the only class he attends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Paige goes to the OB/GYN for her six week check-up?

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

5. What does Nicholas' boss tell him after the birth of his son?

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

7. When did Jake and Paige's relationship move from just being friends?

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

9. What happens at the only Lamaze class Nicholas attends for Paige's entire pregnancy?

10. Why did Paige's mother take her to visit cemeteries when Paige was a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel openly talks about an abortion. What is Picoult trying to say about the after effects of an abortion on a woman through Paige's experience?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the irony that Nicholas struggles to take care of Max in the same ways that Paige did. Does this give him any insight into his wife and their marriage?

Essay Topic 3

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

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