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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 did Angus think he was suffering from?

2. What was Angus wearing as he left his house at 3 a.m. to go talk to Cam?

3. What potion does Allie help Ellen prepare?

4. What does Mia do her first morning in Cam's house before going downstairs for breakfast?

5. After the woman removes all traces of her husband from her house, what does it remind her of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of wife is Allie to Cam?

2. What in particular concerns Allie about her relationship with Cam?

3. Why did Ellen McDonald embrace New Age ideas after her husband's death eight years ago?

4. How does Ellen burn herself when she and Allie are trying out their healing potion?

5. What does Cam think Mia smells like?

6. What does Mia contemplate doing as she looks through Cam and Allie's medicine cabinet?

7. Why does Jamie dislike the prosecutor in his case?

8. How did the Clan McDonald end up settling in Wheelock, Massachusetts?

9. Why does the woman wrap the stained glass panel in newspaper and hide it behind the toilet?

10. What is significant about the first picnic Allie and Cam had together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dicuss the quote at the beginning of Part II in terms of who and what you think Picoult is referring to. Who was bold in their actions? Was mercy received and was it what the character(s) is expecting it to be?

"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy." -Shakespeare, Timmons of Athens

Essay Topic 2

What was Jamie's theory about marriage? How did it apply to what he did to Maggie as well as her asking him to do it? How did it apply to Allie and Cam's marriage?

Essay Topic 3

How does the novel explore the meaning of not only the word mercy, but love and loyalty, as well?

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