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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. How does Anne describe her newborn son?
(a) "Wrinkly as a breakfast prune"
(b) "Red as a strawberry"
(c) "The most beautiful thing I had ever seen"
(d) "Small as a gnome"

2. What happens to relieve Anne's financial worries?
(a) She gets a full-time job offer
(b) She gets an offer to write a monthly magazine column
(c) Sam's father begins sending support money
(d) She gets money from her father's estate

3. In what city is Anne's baby born?
(a) Sacramento
(b) San Francisco
(c) Oakland
(d) Los Angeles

4. What is a regret that Anne has during the Christmas season?
(a) That her father did not live long enough to meet Sam
(b) That she never had a ballet career
(c) That she never got her Master's Degree
(d) That she never joined the Peace Corps

5. Where is Sam's father?
(a) He walked away when he learned Anne was pregnant
(b) He is in the army overseas
(c) He is dead
(d) He is out of town on business

Short Answer Questions

1. When an associate pastor from her church comes to help, what does he do to help Anne?

2. How old is Sam when he finally sleeps through the night?

3. What does Anne show Sam in a store window?

4. How does Anne feel most of the time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to calm Anne's angst about Sam not having a good male influence in his life?

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

3. What is Anne's biggest fear about having a boy?

4. What is the symbolism of the touching fingers in the story to Anne's life in Part 11.

5. Even though Anne feels fragile and vulnerable, she is stronger than she thinks. Explain Anne's strength and coping mechanisms.

6. Describe Anne's experience prior to going into labor and delivering her baby.

7. Describe the photo collage of elements that Anne considers to be her family.

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

9. What symbolism does Anne find in the way Sam has learned to crawl?

10. What does the futon episode remind Anne of?

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