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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. What does Hannah see when she comes down in the morning in Chapter 12?

2. What grade did Jack get in the second unit of physics when she took it the first time?

3. Where does Louisa live?

4. What was Nath doing when Lydia went to his room at the beginning of Chapter 11?

5. What bound the Lees together after Marilyn returned from her disappearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did it bother Hannah when Lydia smiled after she came home from failing her test for her learner's permit?

2. What did James tell Lydia was the most important thing to remember?

3. How does James describe the buns Louisa made?

4. How did Nath usually get new clothes?

5. Why did Lydia wear a pretty dress to school in Chapter 11?

6. What did Nath do after his parents argued about James' affair in Chapter 10?

7. How easy did Nath think it would be to free himself of his family?

8. How does James try to forget that Lydia is dead?

9. What does James see at the dock of the lake near the fourth of July, and what did he do?

10. What was the cake like that Marilyn baked for Lydia's birthday?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

James and Marilyn marry. What were each of them looking for and why did their desires put a stress on the marriage?

Essay Topic 2

Both Marilyn and James knew what it was like to be different. What happened in their lives that made Marilyn and James know what it was like to be different from everyone else around them?

Essay Topic 3

Lydia believed strongly in promises. When did Lydia make a promise that she kept for the rest of life? How did that promise shape her life and why didn't Lydia ever break it?

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