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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. In Session 25, Annie tells her psychiatrist how she watched while who interviewed her mother about the kidnapping?

2. For whom has Annie recently agreed to do some bookkeeping in Session 17?

3. Annie describes having dinner with her mother in Session 23, in which her mother told her how Christina was her competition for what?

4. What assisted Annie in escaping her second abductor in Session 22?

5. In Session 16, Annie describes how her abductor told her that although it had not been a full six weeks yet, he felt it was okay for them to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the special session Annie has with her psychiatrist in Session 23?

2. How did Annie end the conversation with her mother described in Session 26? What does Annie relate about Christina in this session?

3. What did Wayne confess to Annie, as she relates in Session 24?

4. How does Annie describe the police officers she first encountered after her escape in Session 19?

5. What did Annie learn from her mother about her relationship with Dwight, as described in Session 26?

6. What does Annie say led to her second attempt at therapy in Session 15?

7. What led to Annie's discussion with her mother about Aunt Val, as she describes in Session 17?

8. How did Annie kill her abductor? What did she do immediately afterward?

9. Why does Annie arrive for an unscheduled visit with her psychiatrist in Session 22?

10. What setback does Annie describe in her emotional progress in Session 17? What led to the setback?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define post-traumatic stress disorder and examine how this disorder relates to the protagonist of the novel. What is Annie's emotional standing as she comes to terms with her past?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and analyze Annie's breaking point and murder of the Freak. What led to Annie's finally attacking her abductor?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Lorraine in the narrative. How does Annie describe her relationship with her mother?

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