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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the adults in Aleka's life try to do?
(a) Put her on medications
(b) Make her stop crying
(c) Help her fight her fear
(d) Lock her in her room

2. Where is Anne when she finally realizes that her father is dead?
(a) Rothko Chapel
(b) The mall
(c) The movies
(d) The Astrodome

3. How old does Anne say she is when she learns to feed herself?
(a) 1
(b) 9
(c) 33
(d) 2

4. What does Anne call Sam's legs?
(a) Toothpicks
(b) Bird legs
(c) Poles
(d) Sticks

5. Whose legs are Sam's like?
(a) Her mother's
(b) Hers
(c) Anne's father
(d) Sam's father

6. What does Anne try to accept when she is in her forties?
(a) that she will never get married
(b) that she will never be wealthy
(c) the fact that she is m-m-m-middle aged
(d) that she will always be skinny

7. What does Anne finally consider her dreadlocks to be?
(a) The perfect hairstyle
(b) The first style she has ever really liked
(c) A huge style blunder
(d) Her own private picket fence

8. Where does Anne put the notes she sends to God?
(a) In her Bible
(b) In an envelope at church
(c) In her garden
(d) God's In Box

9. What does Anne realize about herself?
(a) She is fearless.
(b) She is impatient.
(c) She is a coward.
(d) She is not afraid to speak out.

10. What does Sam bring Anne as a token of apology?
(a) A starfish
(b) A piece of sea glass
(c) A clothespin
(d) An ice cream cone

11. Anne feels like _____________________ over how old her mother is.
(a) swearing out loud
(b) hitting something
(c) slamming all her doors
(d) sobbing with grief

12. The doctor tells Anne he is 98 percent certain she is OK. What does Anne say when he asks if those odds are good enough for her?
(a) She is OK with it if he is.
(b) Those are better odds than she had hoped for.
(c) She wants a second opinion.
(d) He obviously has never worked with her before.

13. To what does Anne compare Olivia's illness?
(a) A plague
(b) A canvas
(c) A nightmare
(d) A pall

14. What is the name of Anne and Sam's dog?
(a) Skittles
(b) Zulu
(c) Sadie
(d) Flash

15. Anne says her mother was not always as ______________ as she is now.
(a) vulnerable
(b) forgetful
(c) angry
(d) sloppy

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne describe the car loaned by the auto mechanic's shop?

2. To whom does Anne liken God in the story about Elijah?

3. How does everything in the city seem to Anne?

4. Why can Sam not continue snorkeling?

5. Who is Anne's friend who has a granddaughter named Akela?

(see the answer keys)

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