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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks Julia how she can "listen to sad stories all day long" (137)?
(a) Ellie.
(b) Cal.
(c) Max.
(d) Peanut.

2. When Ellie tells Julia that everything will be okay, Julia makes a reference to which character?
(a) Their mother.
(b) Cal.
(c) Max.
(d) Their father.

3. Julia muses that she had always gained what element as a result of spending time with her mother?
(a) Toughness.
(b) Courage.
(c) An analytical mind.
(d) Hope.

4. Cal teases Ellie about having written a letter to which celebrity in her youth?
(a) Boy George.
(b) Rick Springfield.
(c) Kurt Cobain.
(d) Sean Astin.

5. When Julia decides in the middle of the night to begin writing a book, she ends up "surrounded by balled-up yellow wads of paper," (46) all of which say only which two words?
(a) "I'm sorry" (46).
(b) "Please don't" (46).
(c) "Forgive me" (46).
(d) "Why her?" (46)

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brings back a tray of food for Girl from the hospital cafeteria?

2. What instrument had Ellie's father played?

3. The narrator states that for Julia, everything "in the past year, every thought and deed, led her back to" (51) what emotion?

4. When Julia arrives at her childhood home at the beginning of Chapter 16, who is waiting up for her?

5. At the end of the Chapter 12, Julia tells Alice that what element "is everything" (171)?

(see the answer key)

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