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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did Mrs. Adams ever see the son again who was in the story she relates to Torey and Ali.

2. Who is the only calm person among those at the police station concerning Chris Creed?

3. What does Torey imagine?

4. Who lives across the street from Ali?

5. Who besides Bo Richardson has injured Chris?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Torey write a document about Chris Creed's disappearance?

2. What does the letter to Alex Healy, from Torey say?

3. Why did Mrs. Creed come down to the store on Saturday?

4. What do Torey and his friends talk about when they discuss Chris Creed and how they acted towards him?

5. How does Torey feel about Ali and what does he want to do?

6. What did the Creeds believe about their son?

7. What does Torey think the note clearly show and what does he think most people would miss if they read the note?

8. Who does Torey run into on the way to the cafeteria and how does he know her? Why doesn't he see her often any more?

9. What does Torey Adams do in his senior year of high school and what does he think about it?

10. What does Torey feel in the basement and what does he do about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 13, Ali and Torey's conversation reveals not only more depth to each of their characters, including Ali's motivations for ruining her own reputation and Torey's unhappiness in his perfect life, but it also provides more depth to the repercussions of Mrs. McDermott's own destructive behavior.

1. What do you think this statement means? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. What do you think are the repercussions of Mrs. McDermott's behavior? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think the conversation between Ali and Torey revealed more of their characters? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Torey has changed so completely that he cannot even make himself talk to his friends about what is going on. In the past, Torey would have told Alex anything, but in light of his new friendship with Bo and knowing what has been going on with Ali and Chris, Torey cannot relate to Alex anymore. Torey has matured, while his friends have not.

1. Do you think if you had experienced what Torey has by Chapter 13 in the book you would have changed in the ways he has? Why or why not?

2. Discuss the way that crisis can change a person. Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Torey sees his friends as shallow from all the events up to Chapter 13? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

The idea that Chris, the most unpopular boy in school, had a girlfriend is an interesting new development. Perhaps Chris was not the person Torey and everyone else believed him to be. This idea and the diary itself give Torey new insight into who Chris Creed was and new sympathy for him.

1. What do you think the idea of Chris Creed having a girlfriend might change the way Torey thought of him? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Expand on the idea that no one is the person people think she/he is from the outside. Use ideas from the book and your own life to illustrate your points.

3. Why do you think Chris Creed's diary engendered sympathy from Torey? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

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