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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. Annie searched all over for her child's body, searching the grounds and the river, finally looking where?

2. After how long in the hospital did Annie become frustrated, leading the officer to talk to the doctors and have her released?

3. What did Annie do before going to the police station after she reached a small town in her escape?

4. Where was the hotel Annie's abductor stayed while he was stalking Annie?

5. In Session 25, Annie describes how her mother told her that she had been accused of having an affair with whom when she was young?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What obstacles led to Annie's mother's eventual arrest and conviction, as described in Session 26?

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

5. What does Annie relate about the burglar in her neighborhood in Session 19?

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

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

8. What police were called in by the small-town cops to work with Annie, as described in Session 20? How are they described?

9. What led to each of Annie's mother's marriages, as described in Session 26?

10. What conversation with Luke does Annie describe to her therapist in Session 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Lorraine's motivations for having her daughter abducted. What did Lorraine hope to achieve? Did she succeed?

Essay Topic 2

Identify and analyze the motifs of murder and grief in the narrative. Before her abduction, what experience had Annie had with grief?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the narrative point of view of the novel. What is the effect of the author's choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session?

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