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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. When Joley asked Jane why she wanted to marry Oliver, what was Jane's response?

2. At Port Jefferson, on July 18, 1990, Jane and Rebecca take the ferry to where?

3. In his second letter to Jane, about what does Joley write?

4. Where does Jane long to be?

5. What does Jane remember about being ten years old with her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Rebecca arrives at the Spregg home?

2. What does Oliver do, now that Rebecca and Jane have left?

3. How does Oliver learn about where his wife and daughter are headed?

4. Where does Jane go after the plane crash? What takes place here?

5. Where do Oliver and Jane long to be?

6. How do Jane and Rebecca get $400?

7. What does Sam recall about his childhood?

8. What happens when Jane arrives at the next location to meet Jake?

9. What has become of Oliver and Jane's marriage?

10. What happens after Jane and Rebecca speed past Ernie Barb?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oliver's first love is studying whales.

Part 1) How do you know this is his first love? How does this affect his marriage and relationship with his daughter?

Part 2) How does his knowledge and love of whales make him overly confident? How does this also lead to an understanding of himself?

Part 3) How is this love of whales and the connection with water threaded through this story and in the lives of other characters?

Essay Topic 2

Rebecca's chapters are told in reverse chronological order.

Part 1) Describe the story that is told throughout Rebecca's chapters.

Part 2) Why are her chapters in reverse chronological order? How does this affect the telling of this story?

Part 3) One chapter breaks from this pattern. Describe this chapter. Why does it break with the reverse chronology? How does this affect the chapters prior to and after this chapter?

Essay Topic 3

There is a telepathic connection between Jane and Joley.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) How has this connection come about? How does their past help bind these two characters together?

Part 3) How does the close relationship between these two characters affect their relationships with others? Why?

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