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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Anne hoping for on this night?
(a) A job offer
(b) Dinner invitations
(c) Autograph signing session
(d) Acclaim

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

5. Why do Anne and Sam go to Idaho?
(a) Anne has a job interview.
(b) They want to go fly fishing.
(c) They want to visit Hemingway's grave.
(d) Anne is a lecturer at a writer's conference.

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

7. Where does Anne's family live during the time her parents' marriage is falling apart?
(a) A castle
(b) A townhouse
(c) A ranch
(d) A split-level

8. Anne says she is not one of those Christians ___________________.
(a) who forgives
(b) who teaches Sunday School
(c) who organizes bake sales
(d) who goes to church every day

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

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) A random act of kindness
(b) A miracle
(c) An accident
(d) An answer to a prayer

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

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

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

14. What does this same man do the next day at the resort?
(a) Goes snorkeling
(b) Goes water skiing
(c) Goes windsurfing
(d) Goes parasailing

15. What illness does Anne's neighbor, Rick, have?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Liver cancer
(c) Mesothelioma
(d) Lung cancer

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Anne's lecture idea received?

2. How does Anne describe her God during this period?

3. According to Anne's parents, only the ______________ believe.

4. Who does Anne select when she decides she must forgive someone?

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

(see the answer keys)

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