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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 ask Mia after they are officially introduced in his kitchen?

2. What does Cam do when he is alone with Mia the day after Jamie's confession?

3. What does Mia do with the first note she writes to Cam?

4. Why did Jamie take measurements of Maggie before she got sick?

5. What is the name of the private detective Cam hires?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Allie offer to do while Jamie goes into the police station with Cam after he confesses to murder?

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

3. What does the reader sense about Cam's feelings for Mia after they are introduced in his kitchen?

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

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

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

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

8. What is Jamie's occupation and how did it involve Maggie?

9. What is one of the valuable objects of her husband's that the woman gives away for pennies at the yard sale?

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

What role does betrayal play in the novel Mercy?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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