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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. Kelly was advised to have no more than _____________ glasses of wine each week.

2. What was Dr. Schoenberg against doing in George's case?

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

4. When did Kelly start her radiation treatments?

5. What happened to Kelly during the funeral in #178?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Kelly and Edward meet and what impressed George the most about Edward?

2. 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?

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

4. What did Kelly learn about her diet from a nutritionist?

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

6. What were some of the reasons that Kelly liked living in California?

7. What did Kelly, Edward and the girls do when they learned that George had only two more cancer treatments?

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

9. How did Kelly's parents surprise her when they said they couldn't come to California for Christmas?

10. What were Kelly's concerns about having a baby and on what day did she have her first child?

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

Create a brief character study of Edward Lichty. What did he look like? What were his positive personality traits? What were some of his negative characteristics? What were his hopes and fears? What were his primary motivations during his life?

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