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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. Why does Mariah have to go back to New Canaan?

2. What is Faith doing when Kenzie comes for her second visit?

3. How did Mariah and Colin meet?

4. What awakens Mariah on the morning of October 7?

5. When was the first time Colin kissed Mariah?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does Ian believe that Michael was healed?

3. Why does Father Joseph call Monsignor O'Shaughnessy?

4. When did Father Rampini decide to become a priest?

5. Why is Father Joseph MacReady stunned when only eight people attend early morning mass?

6. Why does Rabbi Weissman call Rabbi Daniel Solomon?

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

8. What does the Bishop decide to do about Faith?

9. Why did Teresa Civernos decide to contact Petra Saganoff?

10. Why does Father MacReady think Faith sees God as female?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On August 30, Faith "knows that truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat. Explain how truth can cause pain and how love can be compared to a fist around the throat. Use examples from the novel that show when Faith might have experienced times when truth was painful and times when love felt like it was strangling her.

Essay Topic 2

At the beginning of the novel, Millie tells Mariah that "being a family isn't a social construct, but an instinct." Using examples from the novel, explain why family is not a social construct, but an instinct.

Essay Topic 3

For Christians, the Old Testament of the Bible represents the old covenant between man and God, and the New Testament represents a new covenant between man and God. Explain why the author might have divided the book into two parts: "The Old Testament" and "The New Testament".

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