Operating Instructions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anne Lamott
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Operating Instructions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anne Lamott
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month do the entries in Part 3 occur?
(a) April
(b) October
(c) August
(d) December

2. What begins to change Anne's frantic moods from being so exhausted?
(a) Sam's colic goes away
(b) Anne hires a nanny
(c) Anne's mother takes Sam for a few days
(d) Sam begins to smile

3. What happens one day when Anne and Sam are sleeping?
(a) Anne rolls off the futon
(b) Anne rolls onto Sam
(c) The cat sits on Sam
(d) Sam rolls off the futon

4. What is Anne's idea of normal for a family?
(a) A mother is quite enough for a child
(b) The presence of a husband and father
(c) Anything as long as a child is loved
(d) There is no such thing as normal

5. Anne resists the urge to eat ________________.
(a) A box of doughnuts
(b) A bag of popcorn
(c) A gallon of ice cream
(d) A whole plate of nachos

6. What is a major characteristic of Anne's writing style?
(a) Humor
(b) Verbose
(c) Poetry
(d) Succinct

7. What event causes little Sam some emotional and physical distress?
(a) An ear infection
(b) Getting a bath
(c) Circumcision
(d) Breathing treatments

8. Anne cannot imagine going through the experience of having Sam without _____________.
(a) Cable TV
(b) Pammy
(c) Nanny
(d) Baby monitor

9. To what does Anne compare her current life?
(a) Going to the spa
(b) Volunteering for the Special Olympics
(c) Studying for final exams
(d) Taking a month-long vacation in Mexico

10. What do Pammy and her husband struggle with?
(a) The in-laws
(b) Infertility
(c) The mortgage
(d) The kids

11. Where does Anne host a post-Baptism party?
(a) A local restaurant
(b) The beach
(c) A local park
(d) Pammy's house

12. What does Anne realize she needs to do in order to survive financially?
(a) Take on more freelance work
(b) Sell her house
(c) Get a full-time job
(d) Sell some stocks

13. How old is Anne when she is pregnant?
(a) 30
(b) 22
(c) 25
(d) 35

14. How does Anne ask God what she should do?
(a) Goes to church to pray
(b) Writes notes and puts them in a prayer box
(c) Lights candles at church every morning
(d) Sends money to the missions

15. With what is Sam afflicted?
(a) Colic
(b) Down Syndrome
(c) Heart murmur
(d) Jaundice

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a little unsettling for Anne?

2. What does Anne decide about her single-parent status?

3. What suggestion from the doctor does Anne resist about Sam's colic?

4. Most of all, Anne hopes to do what for her son?

5. What was Anne's mother's reaction to Anne's pregnancy?

(see the answer keys)

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