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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sam's eating style?
(a) Noisy
(b) Messy
(c) Fastidious
(d) Greedy

2. What does Anne consider important in her life?
(a) The fact that she continually tries
(b) Earning more money
(c) Getting a bigger house
(d) Writing another book

3. What surprises Anne about Sam lately?
(a) How much he looks liker her father
(b) How vocal he is
(c) How fast he can crawl
(d) How much he looks like her

4. What does Anne do to manage the news about Pammy?
(a) Starts drinking again
(b) Looks up information
(c) Focuses on Sam
(d) Goes into denial

5. What does the month of July mark for Anne?
(a) One year of celibacy
(b) Two years of home ownership
(c) Four years of sobriety
(d) Six years of writing professionally

6. Why does Anne go to dinner with friends?
(a) To drink
(b) To do a food review
(c) To get adult conversation
(d) To get out of the house

7. Why does Anne stop seeing a man she had been attracted to?
(a) He is a Republican
(b) He is unstable
(c) He is too old
(d) He is lazy

8. Who helps Anne resist her cravings?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her brother
(c) Her therapist
(d) Pammy

9. What kind of baby does Anne think Sam is?
(a) Cranky
(b) Happy
(c) Slow
(d) Intense

10. What does Pammy manage relatively easily?
(a) Her first round of chemotherapy
(b) Being a foster parent
(c) Writing a book
(d) Learning to speak French

11. What does Pammy bring when she visits Anne one day?
(a) Tickets to a play
(b) Sorbet and a magazine
(c) A chicken casserole
(d) A bottle of wine

12. What is Anne's state of mind in Part 11?
(a) Barely hanging on
(b) Confident
(c) Optimistic
(d) Calm

13. Who watches Sam while Anne and Pammy are out?
(a) Anne's neighbor
(b) Anne's brother
(c) Anne's mother
(d) Anne's nanny

14. Who is Megan?
(a) Anne's writing student
(b) Sam's babysitter
(c) Anne's editor
(d) Pammy's daughter

15. Why does Anne resist her urges to drink or get high?
(a) She doesn't have anybody to do it with
(b) She can't find a good babysitter
(c) Because she needs to be a good mother to Sam
(d) She fears her mother's censure

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne trying to avoid with her coping mechanism?

2. What does Anne contemplate continuing until Sam goes to kindergarten?

3. How is Anne handling her father's death?

4. What is Sam's latest accomplishment?

5. What is Anne lacking the motivation to do?

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