Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Anne and Pammy spend most of their time?
(a) The mall
(b) The record store
(c) The Y
(d) Shelly's house

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

3. Whose strong presence does Anne feel one night when she is scared?
(a) Her father
(b) Her grandmother
(c) Jesus
(d) Buddha

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

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

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

7. What does Anne realize is her problem with the woman at Sam's school?
(a) Anne's perspective on the woman's actions
(b) Anne's inferiority complex
(c) Anne does not have as much money
(d) Anne is a single mother

8. What was the message on Anne's father's answering machine?
(a) The freedom train is coming.
(b) It is what it is.
(c) All's well that ends well.
(d) An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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

10. What is Rick's attitude about life?
(a) Hey, we all gotta go someday.
(b) Live each day to the fullest.
(c) Speak softly and carry a big stick.
(d) Why does crap only happen to me?

11. 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

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

13. What cause does Anne recall protesting with her father years ago?
(a) The Republican National Convention
(b) Death penalties and inhumane conditions
(c) The bans on gay marriage
(d) The war in Vietnam

14. Who does Anne befriend when she is sixteen?
(a) Billie
(b) Barbara
(c) Bee
(d) Betsy

15. Why does Anne say she always prayed at night?
(a) She wasn't doing well in school.
(b) She didn't want her parents to divorce.
(c) She knew someone was listening.
(d) She was afraid of the dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the gay man in her church who is dying from AIDS?

2. What does Anne do when she realizes Sam is watching cartoons?

3. What do Mary's dimes symbolize for Anne?

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

5. How is Anne's lecture idea received?

(see the answer keys)

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