View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kelly's Internet business?

2. Where was Kelly living in 1999 when working on a new Internet business?

3. On which day did Kelly give birth for the first time?

4. What impressed George the most when he met Edward?

5. When Kelly's online sales dried up, she tried to sell the business to a company in which city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What restrictions was Kelly warned about prior to having her lumpectomy?

2. Why was Dr. Schoenberg particularly empathetic to Kelly's interest in her father's cancer treatment?

3. What did Kelly do in order to learn more about her father's bladder cancer and who was the cancer doctor she wanted her father to see?

4. What was the state of George's cancer at the end of the book?

5. How did Edward's lack of enthusiastic response to Kelly's new job show that he was not like her father?

6. When did Kelly experience her first panic attack and how did her mother help her through it?

7. Explain why Georgia and Claire had begun acting out since Kelly's illness and why Kelly wanted to change this.

8. Why was Kelly especially worried about her father in January 2005 and what did she do about it?

9. What was the result of Kelly's genetic testing?

10. What were some of the attractive reasons about the house Kelly found in the Piedmont school district near San Francisco?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the overall setting for the book. Why does the author use the setting she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Mary Corrigan. What did she look like? What were her positive personality traits? What were some of her negative characteristics? What were her hopes and fears? What were her primary motivations during her life?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the role of Kelly's family in her life. What did Kelly learn from her parents' marriage? How were Kelly's parents also involved in her world? How does the family evolve in its support of each other?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 995 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample