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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. What is Jeff doing in the bay when he realizes that he has practiced not being anybody, though he wants to learn who he is?
(a) Swimming
(b) Playing his guitar
(c) Skipping stones
(d) Crabbing

2. Who is waiting for Jeff when he returns to the Baltimore airport this time?
(a) Brother Thomas
(b) Melody
(c) No one
(d) The Professor

3. What does Jeff decide to give to Miss Opal from his inheritance?
(a) Stocks
(b) The estate
(c) A book
(d) The ring

4. Jeff tells the Professor that Melody had said she would have taken him with her had Jeff been _____________.
(a) A baby
(b) Not like his father
(c) An older man
(d) A girl

5. Jeff finds the girl's ____________ appealing and he likes the way she is helpless to the music.
(a) Beauty
(b) Determination
(c) Intelligence
(d) Voice

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose car does Jeff see when he is coming home ten days before school lets out?

2. Who does Jeff write about for the essay in his English class, though his teacher mocks him?

3. ____________ enjoys watching the herons and playing the guitar, content finally in his solitude.

4. What is Jeff on again during his sophomore year of high school, though he would never have thought it to be the case?

5. Jeff suggests that Melody keep the _____________ instead of selling it.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Professor worried when Gambo's lawyer is coming to visit their house?

2. Why does Sammy think that if his sister turned out to be like their mom it wouldn't be a bad thing?

3. What is the achievement Jeff learns he and Dicey both share?

4. What does Jeff realize about Dicey when Dicey's mother dies?

5. What does Jeff begin to realize the principal at his school and Melody did when he receives all As?

6. Who is waiting for Jeff when he returns from his visit with Melody?

7. What does Jeff realize about the Professor's expectations of him at school?

8. What does Jeff begin to do in order to see Dicey more often, meeting her brother at the same time?

9. Why does Jeff decide to stay instead of running away from Melody as she sits on the lawn?

10. Why does Jeff begin to ride the roller coasters after returning home to his father's house?

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