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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. Where is Mia staying after she decides she can't stay in Cam's house?

2. What type of client was Jamie creating a program for?

3. How did Cam's father die?

4. What does Mia tell Cam her cat thought he was when they lived in India?

5. What reason does Jamie give Cam for killing his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is significant about the newspaper article Cam reads while he is waiting for Mia to bring dinner back to the flower shop one night?

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

6. What is Jamie's theory about marriage?

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

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

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

10. What is the epiphany Jamie has while attending the library lecture?

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 are Cam's contradictory convictions and how does he struggle with them throughout the novel? Does he finally resolve them by the end of the story?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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