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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. What does Anne indulge in?
(a) Halloween candy
(b) Pretzels
(c) Jelly Beans
(d) Coffee

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

3. Where is Sam baptized?
(a) St. Anne's Church
(b) St. Andrews Church
(c) First Presbyterian Church
(d) St. Aloysius Church

4. How does Anne think she might lose Sam?
(a) If she does not feed him
(b) If she drinks any alcohol
(c) If she doesn't get a bigger house
(d) If she does any drugs

5. Who supports Anne emotionally during her early pregnancy?
(a) The best friend of the man who abandoned her
(b) An old boyfriend who never wanted children
(c) Her writing workshop student
(d) Her old tennis coach

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sam's father?

2. With what is Sam afflicted?

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

4. What is a major characteristic of Anne's writing style?

5. How old is Anne when she is pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What startling event occurs when Anne and Sam are sleeping?

3. Explain Anne's belief in God and her faith that He will provide for her and Sam.

4. Explain what it is that Anne learns how to do which had previously been difficult for her.

5. What wishes does Anne recall making for Sam on the night he was born?

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

7. Where does Anne regularly take Sam?

8. What does Anne recall about her own seventh and eighth grade experiences that she finds the prospect of Sam's living through them so daunting?

9. What are Anne's thoughts about her father during the Christmas holiday season?

10. What is the premise for Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

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