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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 Nicholas do with the portraits Paige draws of him every time she draws a patient's portrait?

2. What does Nicholas tell Paige she should do soon after she tells him the truth about her past?

3. What does Paige think when she sees Max right after the surgery?

4. What time of day is it as Paige drifts through the business center of Boston?

5. Who does Nicholas come fact-to-face with the parking lot Mass General?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Nicholas discovers Max is ill, where does he take him?

3. How does Nicholas react to Paige's plea to stop the divorce and give her a second chance?

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

5. What does Nicholas discover as he looks into divorcing Paige?

6. How does Paige react when something seems off with Max in Chapter 40?

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

8. Who talks Paige out of running away again and tells her she should stay and fight?

9. What does Nicholas do after finding Paige nearly unconscious on the sidewalk?

10. What happens when Paige sees Max for the first time in three months?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Patrick O'Toole tells Paige the story of Cuchulainn and Dechtire. What does the story symbolize and how is it used throughout the novel?

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