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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. Who does Graham see in his office the morning Jamie's trial starts?

2. Who walks into the church as Allie is decorating?

3. Where did Cam tell his staff he was going for the weekend he took Mia out of town?

4. What kind of card does Cam get Allie for Valentine's Day?

5. What town did Mia move to after leaving Wheelock?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Graham nervous after Jamie's trial date is set?

2. What does Allie do when a man flirts with her at a bar where she is drinking her sorrows away?

3. What does Allie do after discovering Cam is having an affair with Mia?

4. What does Jamie tell the prosecutor when she asks him why he didn't remove the pillow when Maggie struggled?

5. Why does Graham ask Allie to help him with Jamie's case?

6. What does Jamie realize when he sees Maggie's ghost in the copy room at the courthouse?

7. What several things happen the Monday morning after Cam and Mia's trip to New Hampshire?

8. What does Allie do one evening at her shop to try to help her situation with Cam?

9. What happens in Cam's dream at the end of the novel?

10. What does Mia finally tell Cam after they go ice skating in New Hampshire?

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

How is the stained glass panel used as a symbol throughout the novel? Explain fully what it represents from the prologue to the end of the story.

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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