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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 is one of the things that does not frighten Anne about her pregnancy?
(a) Morning sickness
(b) Labor
(c) Amniocentesis
(d) Delivery

2. What amazes Anne about her own body?
(a) That it can nourish her child
(b) That it can create another human
(c) That it has gone back to normal size
(d) That it can function on little sleep

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

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

5. What suggestion from the doctor does Anne resist about Sam's colic?
(a) Using a vaporizer
(b) Letting him cry
(c) Medicating him
(d) Feeding him

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the party-goers impressed by?

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

3. What worry does Anne carry around all the time?

4. Who supports Anne emotionally during her early pregnancy?

5. What is Anne given immediately after being admitted?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways does it seem that Anne is not as strong as she needs to be?

3. How has Sam's arrival influenced Anne's relationship with her mother?

4. What frightening experience does Anne have with Sam one day in the car?

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

6. Explain how Anne compares her life to experiences volunteering for the Special Olympics.

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

8. Where does Anne regularly take Sam?

9. What is the state of Sam's development in Part 10?

10. What does Anne share about her first few days home with Sam?

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