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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. Which defense does Graham thinks is too risky to use for Jamie's trial?

2. As Cam sits at work at the beginning of the novel, what does he close his eyes and dream about?

3. How many years were Jamie and Maggie married?

4. What does Jamie say his wife Maggie was suffering from?

5. Cam would have preferred to give his honorary title up and become what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important information does Maggie's best friend tell Allie?

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

3. What does Allie learn about Maggie's condition from her doctor?

4. Why is euthanasia not a good defense for Jamie's trial?

5. What reaction does Cam have to Mia the first time he sees her in Allie's shop?

6. What does Mia tell Cam as they are cleaning up the pictures she spilled in the bedroom?

7. Why does Angus McDonald leave Scotland and move to Wheelock?

8. Why does Cam have more influence in Wheelock than a typical police chief?

9. What is Jamie's concern when Allie volunteers to go to his hometown of Cummington and speak to his neighbors and friends?

10. What is the library lecture given by Verona MacBean about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Mercy a story of the tests that challenge people every day and the mistakes that define a life?

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

Discuss how dreams are used throughout the novel to give insight into characters and illuminate themes.

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