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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When are Aleka's family and friends happy?
(a) When the doctors release Aleka from the hospital
(b) When Aleka makes a move toward conquering her fear
(c) When Aleka returns to school
(d) When Aleka learns to write

2. Who is the big man who sits on Sam when blood has to be drawn?
(a) Ace
(b) Joe
(c) Ira
(d) Max

3. What does Anne do to console herself?
(a) Eats a candy bar
(b) Walks on the beach
(c) Goes to a concert
(d) Takes Sam to lunch

4. What disease does Ella's sister, Olivia, have?
(a) Cystic Fibrosis
(b) Leukemia
(c) Juvenile Diabetes
(d) Muscular Dystrophy

5. What mantra does Akela's psychiatrist tell her to chant when she is afraid?
(a) I am in God's hands.
(b) This will pass.
(c) He's got the whole world in His hands.
(d) God is bigger than the boogeyman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anne wish her family had had their pictures taken?

2. Why does Akela's terror increase after the birth of her twin siblings?

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

4. 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?

5. Anne says that she is too ______________ to die.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne call "God's In Box?"

2. What is Anne's favorite prayer?

3. What does Anne mean by "the land of the fucked"?

4. What really bothers Anne about witnessing the man abusing his dog on the beach one day?

5. Where does Anne fully discover God?

6. When does Anne fully realize that her father is dead?

7. How does Anne liken her situation with waiting on Sam's diagnosis to the life of Elijah?

8. What does Anne mean when she says that she doesn't want to be her "mommy's mommy"?

9. How does Sam show his apology when he misbehaves on the beach on his eighth birthday?

10. What happens when Anne takes Sam to a substitute pediatrician when his own pediatrician is out of town?

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