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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What about Anne's looks has always given her trouble?
(a) Her big ears
(b) Her kinky hair
(c) Her gangly legs
(d) Her long feet

4. Where do Anne and Sam like to spend time?
(a) Driving over the Golden Gate Bridge
(b) The park
(c) The mall
(d) San Quentin Beach

5. How does everything in the city seem to Anne?
(a) Gleaming
(b) Dingy
(c) Small
(d) Broken

6. What does Anne tell Sam it is important to do in all of life's situations?
(a) Walk on the beach
(b) Sing
(c) Read
(d) Eat

7. What are two foods that Anne craves?
(a) Cheetoes and frosting
(b) Pudding and cake
(c) Burgers and fries
(d) Steaks and burritos

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

9. What does Anne call it when parents leave their normal lives behind and spend time with other families of sick children?
(a) Hospitalville
(b) The land of the fucked
(c) Everybody mask-up time
(d) Bubble Boy time

10. What does Anne call Sam's teenage years?
(a) Nonchalant sadism
(b) Opportunities for prayer
(c) Her worst trial
(d) Something to be endured in silence

11. Of what does Anne's father die?
(a) Melanoma
(b) A car accident
(c) A stroke
(d) Kidney failure

12. Who is Anne's friend who has a granddaughter named Akela?
(a) Neshama
(b) Nigra
(c) Natalie
(d) Nicole

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

14. How does Anne know her prayers have been answered?
(a) She has a dream
(b) She takes Sam for a second opinion
(c) She feels a calming patience descend
(d) She sees a vision

15. How much time passes before Anne connects with sober people who will help her get sober?
(a) One year
(b) One month
(c) One week
(d) One day

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose legs are Sam's like?

2. What does Anne know about the men she meets?

3. What does Anne's friend, Marlene, create for Anne?

4. How long has Anne's father been dead?

5. What does Anne do to console herself?

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