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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 Paige think when she sees Max right after the surgery?

2. What place from her past does Paige visit while she tries to figure out what to do about Nicholas?

3. Where did Nicholas go to college?

4. What is the name of the horse that tosses May off when she breaks her ankle?

5. Who finishes Alistair Forgerty's bypass surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nicholas feel when he discovers Paige with Max at his parents' house?

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

3. What surprising news does May have when Paige calls her mother to apologize for how she left?

4. What happens when Paige tells Nicholas the truth about her past?

5. How does Paige react when she sees Max in the recovery room after his surgery?

6. What does May eventually tell Paige is the reason she left her years before?

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

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

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

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

Does Paige need to find her mother in order to be a good mother? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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