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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity does Anne recall doing with Bee?
(a) Joining the Girl Scouts
(b) Sticking their fingers in their belly buttons
(c) Going swimming every day
(d) Playing with their Easy-Bake ovens

2. Who is Anne's best friend while growing up?
(a) Shelly
(b) Suzy
(c) Sally
(d) Sandy

3. What is the subject of the book being read by the man next to Anne on the plane home?
(a) The end of the world
(b) Whole foods diets
(c) Financial planning
(d) Marriage counseling

4. What does Anne say about her parents and their friends?
(a) They are kind
(b) They are intellectuals
(c) They are idiots
(d) They are simple

5. Anne thinks that the people in church look upon her as ___________________.
(a) Someone who tries really hard
(b) A bad mother
(c) A woman who has her act together
(d) Sam's chauffeur

6. What does Anne recall about her final days with Pammy?
(a) Pammy in a wheelchair whipping Anne with her scarf to make her go faster
(b) Going to the park to watch the children play
(c) Going to the beach and watching the sky from sunrise to sundown
(d) Going to as many concerts as possible

7. What does Anne do when she has to make an important decision?
(a) She calls her mother.
(b) She goes to a psychic.
(c) She calls her girlfriends for advice.
(d) She gets very quiet to see what decision brings her peace.

8. Where does Anne leave Sammy to play each day at the resort?
(a) The game room
(b) Daycare
(c) The beach
(d) The pool

9. Why does a typically cheerful woman in the church become morose?
(a) She is losing her sight.
(b) She learns that she has cancer.
(c) Her husband has died.
(d) She must leave her house.

10. What woman do Anne and Sam visit because she is dying?
(a) Mary
(b) Millie
(c) Mimi
(d) Mona

11. What is notable about Grace Paley, the woman with whom Anne is to give two speeches?
(a) She is a female bishop
(b) She has started her own church
(c) She is a writer and political activist
(d) She flies a plane at the age of 75

12. Where does Anne go when Rick takes Sam to school?
(a) Shopping
(b) San Quentin Beach
(c) To church
(d) Golden Gate Park

13. What turns Anne's life around during college?
(a) She has a great roommate.
(b) She gets a religious boyfriend.
(c) She takes a religion class.
(d) She reads Kierkgaard's "Fear and Trembling."

14. On what do Anne's parents blame for the behavior in #10?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Women's liberation
(c) Bad manners
(d) Drugs

15. What do Anne's friends call her religious position?
(a) Buddhist
(b) Kinda Catholic
(c) Sorta Baptist
(d) Christian-ish

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne recall that Pammy had wanted desperately?

2. How does Anne envision her time on stage with Paley?

3. What is unusual about a man Anne sees on a trapeze set at the resort?

4. What does Anne say wears on her to the point that she knows she has to do something about it?

5. What phrase is used by people in Anne's church to anyone embarking on a trip?

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