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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 does Astrid do when Paige announces she is moving back to her mother's?

2. Who calls Paige while she is cleaning the house she once shared with Nicholas?

3. What does Paige draw all around Astrid in the portrait of her mother-in-law?

4. In Part 3, what does Nicholas tell Paige he will do if he sees her car at his house again?

5. What does Nicholas think Paige has come back to Boston for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is May's reaction when Paige tells her she plans to return to her husband and son?

2. Where does Paige go and what does she do after she sees Max with all the tubes still in him from surgery?

3. How does Nicholas react to Paige's artwork at the hospital?

4. What do Paige's drawings reveal when Astrid asks Paige to draw a self portrait?

5. How does Nicholas become the acting chief of cardiac surgery?

6. What does Nicholas and Paige making love three time represent?

7. What does Paige do after waking up in Nicholas' bed?

8. What ironic thing does Paige discover about the daycare Nicholas has had to provide for Max while she was away?

9. What does Nicholas think he sees during the surgery that Paige gets to observe?

10. What do Nicholas and Paige discover is wrong with Max?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of the parent/child relationship as it is shown through Paige and Nicholas' relationship with their parents.

Essay Topic 2

What misunderstanding does the marriage of Nicholas and Paige begin with? Is it necessary for Paige to right that wrong before they can move forward? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Paige feels about motherhood, as is shown through her feelings about her own pregnancy and memories of her mother.

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