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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to a handbag, Annie's mother buys a dress and ______________.
(a) A cardigan.
(b) A coat.
(c) A pair of shoes.
(d) A hat.

2. Who is embarrassed by Annie's mother's behavior in the department store?
(a) Annie's husband.
(b) Annie.
(c) A sales clerk.
(d) Annie's father.

3. Annie would rather accept her mother's ____________ instead of her death.
(a) Insults.
(b) Regression.
(c) Craziness.
(d) Coma.

4. Annie's mother can no longer remember _______________.
(a) Her age.
(b) Her address.
(c) Her name.
(d) Her birthday.

5. What does the author do with the events she summarizes?
(a) She documents her pregnancy.
(b) She teaches Alzheimer's support classes.
(c) She bases her book on them.
(d) She teaches journaling classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reason for the argument about a bra between Annie and her mother?

2. One of Blanche's roommates reminds Annie of _____________________.

3. Annie states that "The body I see ________________."

4. Why does Annie's mother buy such an expensive handbag?

5. What is an important theme in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Annie's conflicted feelings when leaving her mother at the elevator in the hospital?

2. How does Annie's mother's body make her aware of her own aging process?

3. How does Annie's mother begin to show violent tendencies?

4. Describe the feeling of nothingness that Annie experiences after the death of her mother?

5. Explain what Annie means by associating days in her own life with days in her mother's life.

6. What is the premise of I REMAIN IN DARKNESS?

7. How does Annie try to come to terms with the idea that her mother will die?

8. How does Annie describe the nursing home?

9. What was the nickname Annie gave her mother when she was only five-years-old?

10. How does Annie take care of her mother's physical needs and how does her mother's condition affect her?

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