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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does she think of Matt while going to the island?
(a) As a tragic figure in a play.
(b) As a tree that is bent with the weight of tragedy for the moment.
(c) As a strong man who is weak for now.
(d) As a glass ball.

2. Who does Katie see on the sidewalk one day as she looks out her window?
(a) No one.
(b) Suzanne's ghost.
(c) Matt.
(d) Her mother.

3. What does Katie do when she tells Dr. Sassoon she is pregnant?
(a) Is fairly quiet.
(b) Laughs happily.
(c) Cries.
(d) Says she has made no decisions yet.

4. 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.

5. What is interesting about the church where Suzanne and Matt are married?
(a) It is all stone.
(b) It is the oldest Indian Baptist church in the country.
(c) It is entirely set outdoors.
(d) It is all glass.

6. What is another question Katie has about Matt and Suzanne's relationship after reading this far in the journal?
(a) Why Matt has custody of Nicky.
(b) Why they separated.
(c) Why Suzanne is now living in Europe.
(d) If they divorced.

7. What do the three see at a playhouse?
(a) Rumpelstiltskin.
(b) Snow White.
(c) Pinocchio.
(d) A fairy story acted out.

8. What does Katie do on her train ride home?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Pulls out the diary.
(c) Mulls over her decision to give the baby up for adoption.
(d) Mulls over her decision to keep the baby.

9. What does Matt think of when he is looking at Nicky's rocking horse?
(a) That he never painted the horse.
(b) How Nicky would laugh as he rocked on the horse.
(c) The love that went into making the horse.
(d) The Flying Horses carousel.

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

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

12. Where do Suzanne, Matt and Nicky go for Matt's birthday?
(a) Matt's mother's house for dinner.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) The beach.
(d) Coney Island.

13. Who does Katie finally call?
(a) Matt's mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) Her parents.

14. What does Suzanne's cardiologist tell her?
(a) She is in good shape.
(b) One artery has a weak wall area.
(c) One valve is problematic.
(d) She has two weak valves.

15. What can Katie only seem to do?
(a) Not call Matt.
(b) Not burn the diary.
(c) Resist reading the diary over and over.
(d) Read a few pages of the diary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like on the day Suzanne and Matt are married?

2. What picture had Suzanne had framed?

3. What does Katie decide she needs for more balance in her life?

4. What does Suzanne turn on in Nicky's bedroom just as the clock rolls over into the next day?

5. What does Matt say about Suzanne's driving in general?

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