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

2. Where is Max's favorite place to play in his grandparents' house?

3. What does Nicholas think he sees in the observation gallery at the end of a surgery?

4. What happens between Nicholas and Paige as she comes out of her shock?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Nicholas' reaction when Paige shows up on his doorstep after being gone for months?

6. What version of the Cinderella story does Astrid tell Max?

7. Why does the communications director at the hospital want to meet with Paige?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does being forced to take care of Max slowly change Nicholas and his priorities?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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