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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. Where does Father Rampini want the Bishop to take Faith's case?

2. Who does Ian pretend to be when renting a cabin?

3. What would Joan Standish rather do than watch "Hollywood Tonight!"?

4. Who does Mariah call the morning after she and Ian make love?

5. What does Ian compare Faith's hands to after the doctors bandage them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joan Standish say in Mariah's defense at the custody hearing?

2. Why doesn't Mariah put people in her dollhouse?

3. What does Mariah dream the night after she and Ian make love?

4. Why does Mariah get extremely angry when Ian takes Faith fishing?

5. Why does Ian want to persuade Mariah to let Faith attempt to heal Michael?

6. Why does Malcom Metz say that the custody of Faith is a life and death matter?

7. Why does Rabbi Weissman call Rabbi Daniel Solomon?

8. What did Mariah do as a child when a classmate told her she would go to hell if she was not baptized?

9. Does Ian believe that Michael was healed?

10. Who is Malcom Metz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The title of the book is "Keeping Faith". Explain why the title has two different meanings.

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of Chapter 11, is a quote from Isaiah 40:18, "To whom then will ye like God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?" Explain why Faith may see God as a female.

Essay Topic 3

The author uses both first person and third person point of view in the novel. Discuss whether you learn more about Mariah through the portions of the novel that are written in third or in first person.

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