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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What amazes Anne about her own body?

2. Who does Anne call about her breastfeeding issues?

3. What does Anne wish on New Year's Eve?

4. How does Anne think she might lose Sam?

5. Where do Anne and Sam sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Anne's determined focus on Sam a stronger coping mechanism than she may think?

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

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

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

6. Where does Anne regularly take Sam?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Anne decide to keep her baby in spite of her boyfriend's insistence that she have an abortion? Was her age a factor? Her sobriety? Her new relationship with God? Describe the dream Anne has that validates her decision to keep her baby.

Essay Topic 2

Even though Anne was not married to Sam's father they did have a relatively strong relationship and it hurt her deeply when he left after the revelation of her pregnancy. Explain the act of abandonment. How does it impact those who are left behind as well as those who leave? Is an abandoned person always expecting to be abandoned again? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Anne's father was also a writer and the family has a volatile income which did not provide much security. Do you think that Anne is afraid that she has inherited her father's fluctuating financial patterns as well as his gift for words? Explain what qualities Anne has that will not allow her to follow in all of her father's footsteps.

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