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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Rex and Dudu?
(a) Clowns at the circus
(b) Pammy's dogs
(c) Television show characters
(d) Long-time family friends who become grandparents to Sam

2. When is the initial diary entry made?
(a) Three weeks before Sam's birth
(b) Three months after Sam's birth
(c) On Sam's first birthday
(d) Three months prior to Sam's birth

3. What is Anne doing when Sam laughs for the first time?
(a) Making funny faces
(b) Changing Sam's diaper
(c) Shopping
(d) Bathing Sam

4. What does Anne begin to feed Sam?
(a) Water
(b) Apple juice
(c) Soy formula
(d) Goat's milk

5. What does Anne show Sam in a store window?
(a) A mannequin
(b) Christmas decorations
(c) A train
(d) Her latest book

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's greatest fear about having a boy?

2. To what does Anne attribute some of Sam's colicky behavior?

3. What happens when Anne reads a story about the death of a small child?

4. How did Anne spend the final months of her father's life?

5. What does Anne think about Sam at this point?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Anne's delivery experience?

2. What does Part 8 reveal about Anne's state of substance abuse recovery?

3. What is the devastating news learned about Pammy and what does Anne do to cope?

4. What is Sam's progress during February?

5. Explain the irony of Pammy still taking care of Anne even though Pammy is the one with the terminal illness.

6. What is the physical and emotional toll of Pammy's illness in Part 10?

7. What toll is Pammy's illness taking on Anne in Part 12?

8. How is Sam formally initiated into a church family?

9. How does Anne deal with the fact that she is a single parent?

10. What treatments and coping mechanisms is Pammy using to fight her cancer?

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