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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mary's dimes symbolize for Anne?
(a) The love and care from her church family
(b) More Starbucks this week
(c) Money for Sam's bank
(d) Parking meter money

2. How does Anne interpret the well-meaning acts of a woman at Sam's school?
(a) As putdowns
(b) As sincere gestures
(c) As showing off
(d) As random acts of kindness

3. What does Anne like to do?
(a) Swim
(b) Watch TV
(c) Play softball
(d) Attend church

4. What is the reason Anne makes Sam go to church?
(a) The love and care shown by her church family
(b) So his soul will not burn in hell
(c) To give Sam some sort of religious foundation
(d) To expose Sam to different types of people

5. Why is Anne so faithful to her church and church family?
(a) They have a good homeless shelter.
(b) They do good deeds in the community.
(c) They have a great food bank.
(d) They gave her support when she was in trouble.

6. What news arrives as Anne prays for Pammy's cure?
(a) Pammy could adopt a baby girl
(b) Pammy is going to hospice
(c) Pammy had died
(d) Pammy is cured

7. In what city is Anne waiting to board a plane?
(a) New Orleans
(b) Kansas City
(c) Memphis
(d) St. Louis

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

9. Why does Anne not allow Sam to accept the gift?
(a) Sam does not like baseball.
(b) She does not like him to watch TV.
(c) He will not be ready for at least ten years.
(d) He does not have any place to use it.

10. What does Anne recall that Pammy had wanted desperately?
(a) To avoid chemotherapy
(b) To teach again
(c) To be well
(d) To be a mother

11. Why does Anne think that bad things happen?
(a) Because God tests everyone at some point.
(b) Because people are essentially bad and they deserve bad things.
(c) They distract you from something wonderful waiting to be born.
(d) God wants to see what is in your heart.

12. Paley believes that women can be part of the equal rights movement without giving up _____________________.
(a) traditional feminine things
(b) children
(c) pedicures
(d) husbands

13. Anne is the child of ______________.
(a) Baptists
(b) Methodists
(c) atheists
(d) Catholics

14. For awhile both Anne and Sam battle ______________.
(a) dyslexia
(b) illnesses
(c) with each other
(d) food allergies

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's drug of choice when she is 28?

2. Where does Anne leave Sammy to play each day at the resort?

3. Why is Sam acting so morose?

4. How is Anne's lecture idea received?

5. Who does Anne befriend when she is sixteen?

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