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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 does Sarah do for a living?

2. Who does Shenkman ask for help in Part II?

3. What complication happens when Alice delivers the baby?

4. Who is Waldo's mother?

5. What happens to Shenkman on New Year's Eve in 1999?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the circumstances of Waldo's birth?

2. What does Ben Wilf do after the car accident that he regrets?

3. Who does Mimi think Waldo is?

4. What does Theo do for a living?

5. How does Shenkman generally treat Waldo?

6. What causes the car accident?

7. Where does Mimi end up when she wanders away from the nursing home?

8. Why does Sarah want Theo to drive in Part I?

9. What does Waldo do to try to help Mimi?

10. Who is Mimi looking for when she walks away from her nursing home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Shapiro develop the topic of guilt and its implications in different characters' lives throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

When and how does Sarah begin to come to terms with her feelings about the car accident, and what changes does she make that affect her life going forward from that point? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Who decides not to speak about Theo's and Sarah's car accident, and how does this decision affect the Wilf family? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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