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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 does Cam find when he returns home exhausted the night of Jamie's confession?

2. What does Cam tell Allie he would do if she murdered someone?

3. The coroner of Wheelock also serves as what?

4. What does Mia not tell Allie about when they are getting to know each other?

5. What does Mia ask for in her note to Cam?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Graham's excitement about Jamie's case diminish after he talks to Jamie?

7. What proves to Allie that is was a good decision to hire Mia to work in her shop?

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

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

10. What is Mia's strongest childhood memory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the many ironic aspects of the novel and how they relate to the themes of love, loyalty and forgiveness.

Essay Topic 2

Who is the true protagonist of Mercy, Jamie or Cam? Is there a hero in the novel? Fully explain your answer with references to both plot and themes.

Essay Topic 3

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

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