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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the translation of the song Dr. Lynn listens to that is called Liebestod?
(a) Freeing death.
(b) Love and death at the same moment.
(c) Lovely life.
(d) Love and life.

2. Since this is Honor’s second pregnancy out of wedlock, how long will she have to stay at the mother-and-baby house?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 5 years.

3. Why does one of the doctors that Julia and Bridie pass wish he had been arrested?
(a) He wants to feel safe.
(b) So he could have a rest.
(c) He feels guilty for the crime he committed.
(d) He wants a place with better food.

4. When Sister Luke does not believe Honor’s prayers are sincere, she says it is because a year of praying did nothing to reclaim what?
(a) Sense of self.
(b) Her Nibs.
(c) Love of Jesus.
(d) Sanity.

5. What does Bridie believe is wrong with the blood orange?
(a) It is rotten.
(b) It is too sweet.
(c) It is a grapefruit, not an orange.
(d) It is deformed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is actually more perilous to the health of a woman than the week before delivery?

2. What does Julia use to check fetal heartbeats?

3. What technique finally works to birth Mary’s baby?

4. What does Bridie know about the name her parents had given her?

5. What does Bridie have that causes her to have swollen knuckles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Julia do to relieve some of Mary's labor pains?

2. What does each of Julia's scratchings on her watch represent?

3. What is Sister Luke's response when Julia asks if the unwed mothers may take their babies home?

4. What does Dr. Lynn do to try to conceal her identity, when out in public?

5. Why does Julia not tell Tim where she bought his motorcycle?

6. What does Julia tie near Mary’s head during labor? Why?

7. What does Dr. Lynn prescribe Mary, when she is in the pushing phase for pain? What warning does she give Julia and why?

8. How does Julia react to Bridie's kiss? Why does she react this way?

9. What is Julia's response to herself when she wonders how life will ever get back to normal after the pandemic?

10. What are some of the reasons that Bridie and the other children were beaten?

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