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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 does Martha realize as she paints on the sidewalk?
(a) No one will ever remember Olive.
(b) She would be Olive's friend if given the opportunity.
(c) She was silly to bring the water from the ocean.
(d) She will take another stab at writing the book about Olive.

2. What game does Vince want to play with Martha and Godbee in Chapter 47?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Trivial Pursuit.
(c) Pictionary.
(d) Parcheesi.

3. What question does Jimmy ask Martha in Chapter 39?
(a) If she has ever been kissed.
(b) If she will shoot some video of him surfing.
(c) If she will go to the bonfire with him.
(d) If she will carry his camera.

4. What task does Martha have when she stays behind at Godbee's house?
(a) Watching Lucy.
(b) Cooking lunch.
(c) Washing dishes.
(d) Dusting.

5. What does Martha turn to when she abandons writing the book about Olive?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Watercolors.
(c) Baking.
(d) Pottery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Godbee wearing in the dream she tells Martha about in Chapter 49?

2. What does Vince eat for a snack during the game?

3. What do Martha and Jimmy build on the beach?

4. Why can Martha not keep the kiss a secret?

5. Who does Martha imagine is with her at the location in #160?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Martha decide to act after learning that Jimmy filmed their kiss?

2. What impact does Martha's slip in the water have on her?

3. What topic does Martha speak about as Jimmy films her?

4. What fact startles Martha when she speaks about Olive as Jimmy films her?

5. What do Jimmy and Martha do when they spend the day together at the beach?

6. How does Martha feel as she holds Jimmy's hand and they walk down the beach?

7. What does Olive's journal statement about wanting to go to "a real ocean" foreshadow?

8. Why is Martha so conflicted when Dennis and Vince ask her to go with them to the Benton Place?

9. Why is Lucy so upset after she is freed from the mound of sand?

10. Why does Godbee fill baby food jars with colored water?

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