Operating Instructions Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Operating Instructions Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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

2. Who does Anne count on for support?
(a) Therapist
(b) Minister
(c) Friends
(d) Family

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

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

5. Anne has finally learned that she must ____________________________.
(a) Get Sam to sleep through the night
(b) Ask people for help
(c) Go back to work
(d) Get a nanny

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne finally realize about her life?

2. What does Anne think about the worries that most pregnant women have?

3. What do Pammy and her husband struggle with?

4. What has Sam's father recently done?

5. Given her past, Anne is in disbelief that ________________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the emotional complications surrounding the legal motions initiated by Sam's father.

2. What does Anne finally admit is her biggest fear for her child?

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

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

5. What are Anne's New Year's hopes for the future?

6. How has Anne reconciled her negative experiences during the seventh and eighth grades?

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

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

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

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

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