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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Matt tell Nicky?
(a) That his mother has had a heart attack.
(b) That his mother is in the hospital.
(c) That his mother has gone to heaven.
(d) That he is all Matt has now.

2. What does Katie think about as she is musing about what she's read so far?
(a) That she is going to go visit her mother for a couple days.
(b) That she is going to put Matt out of her mind.
(c) That she is going to request that another editor be assigned to Matt.
(d) Moments with Matt.

3. What music is in Nicky's room?
(a) A child's phonograph.
(b) The baby minder.
(c) A small cd player.
(d) From his mobile.

4. Who seems to Katie like a sane and happy family?
(a) The Browns.
(b) The Jacksons.
(c) Her brother-in-law's family.
(d) Her family when she was growing up.

5. How many weeks total do Matt and Suzanne honeymoon?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

6. What does Merlin do as Katie finishes the diary and cries?
(a) Crawls under the bed.
(b) Leaves the room.
(c) Whines.
(d) Comes and lays his head in her lap.

7. What does Katie decide she needs for more balance in her life?
(a) A new place to live.
(b) More besides work.
(c) A new hobby.
(d) Nothing; she thinks her life is pretty well balanced.

8. How many people attend Matt and Suzanne's wedding?
(a) It is standing room only in the church.
(b) Suzanne does not mention that.
(c) About thirty.
(d) About fifty.

9. What does Matt say about Suzanne's driving in general?
(a) She was always a careful driver.
(b) She was not good at judging distances.
(c) She could get distracted.
(d) She drove a little fast.

10. What does Matt make for the baby?
(a) A high chair.
(b) A rocking horse.
(c) A crib.
(d) A bassinet.

11. What question does Katie wonder?
(a) Where Suzanne is.
(b) Why Matt wanted her to read this.
(c) Why Suzanne wrote about Nicky.
(d) How Matt got ahold of Suzanne's diary.

12. What does Matt have happen inside the church at the end of the ceremony?
(a) A blizzard of feathers falling from the ceiling.
(b) A group of his best friends sing.
(c) Matt receives a phone call from his brother in Katmandu to congratulate them.
(d) Matt has a blizzard of paper confetti to fall from the ceiling.

13. Where do Matt and Suzanne go for two of their honeymoon weeks?
(a) Costa Rica.
(b) Europe.
(c) Australia.
(d) Hawaii.

14. Who does Suzanne treat in the ER one day?
(a) A man whose wife died the year before.
(b) A woman who loses her baby.
(c) A young boy the same age as Nicky who dies.
(d) A young girl the same age as Nicky who dies.

15. What does Melanie tell Katie?
(a) Matt is at his mother's house.
(b) Matt went to his brother's house in Connecticut.
(c) Matt is in town.
(d) No one has seen Matt in a while.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Matt's coworkers and friends done?

2. Who does Nicky look at the entire time during his baptism?

3. What does Nicky love to do?

4. What do Matt and Suzanne do one night when they are in Nicky's room after he had awoken for a while?

5. Who is Suzanne riding in Matt's imagination as he and Nicky are chasing after her?

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