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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is used by people in Anne's church to anyone embarking on a trip?
(a) Take care.
(b) Send us a card.
(c) Safe journey.
(d) Traveling mercies.

2. What does Anne do when she realizes Sam is watching cartoons?
(a) Grabs him by the arm and sends him to his room
(b) Takes away TV privileges for two weeks
(c) Spanks him
(d) Grounds him for two weeks

3. What subject did Anne's father teach to prisoners?
(a) History
(b) English
(c) Spanish
(d) Biology

4. What part of her life does the author talk about at length?
(a) Her college days
(b) Her high school years
(c) Her childhood
(d) Her romantic life

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

6. Where does Anne take Sam for a vacation?
(a) Cancun
(b) Nassau
(c) Ixtapa
(d) Puerto Rico

7. What happens to Anne's newly purchased used car?
(a) It dies at a stop sign.
(b) It rolls into a car in a parking lot.
(c) Its brakes fail and she hits a tree.
(d) It skids on wet pavement.

8. What quality does this woman have that Anne approves of?
(a) Sassiness
(b) Grit
(c) Integrity
(d) Perseverance

9. Why is Anne still grief-stricken?
(a) She mourns her friend Pammy's death.
(b) She cannot get over the loss of her father.
(c) She had to put her dog to sleep.
(d) She misses her mother terribly.

10. What does Anne consider it to be when the answer to #27 supports the answer to #26 when he cannot stand at the airport?
(a) An accident
(b) A random act of kindness
(c) A miracle
(d) An answer to a prayer

11. What does Anne think when her plane finally levels out after hours of delay, bomb inspections, and turbulence?
(a) She just wants to get home.
(b) She has been part of another miracle.
(c) She is never flying that airline again.
(d) She is never coming to St. Louis again.

12. What does a man offer Sam as a birthday gift?
(a) A ball bat
(b) A video game
(c) A paragliding ride
(d) Tickets for a ballgame

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

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

15. What does Anne see at the parties her parents host?
(a) People stealing bath soaps
(b) Inappropriate behavior between people who are not married to each other
(c) People putting food in their pockets and purses
(d) People spilling drinks and not wiping up the spills

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne do with the dimes given to her periodically by an elderly woman?

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

3. Who is Sam's friend?

4. What does Sam act like each day Anne returns to pick Sam up?

5. How does Anne interpret the well-meaning acts of a woman at Sam's school?

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