Stay Test | Final Test - Hard

Catherine Ryan Hyde
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 161 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Stay Test | Final Test - Hard

Catherine Ryan Hyde
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 161 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Roy say at his first NA meeting alone?

2. What does Connor say when Lucas makes his discovery in Connor's room in Chapter 16?

3. When Lucas's mother returns in Chapter 13, why is she angry with Lucas?

4. Why does Connor say he does not want to commit suicide anymore?

5. When Lucas tells Roy about his summer, in Chapter 15, what does he leave out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lucas know and not know about Zoe?

2. How exactly does Connor explain to Lucas that he is no longer suicidal?

3. How did Zoe protect Roy from the town, and what is significant about it?

4. How does Lucas learn about the gun?

5. What advice does Zoe give Lucas when he says he has got too many people to save?

6. According to Connor, why is it helpful to talk with Zoe?

7. Why does Connor insist Lucas saved him?

8. How does Roy react to Joe's offer to help?

9. When Lucas drops the gun into the river, he tells the river, "You owe me one." What does he mean?

10. How does Roy's first NA meeting go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one passage from Part I and one from Part II. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the tones of these two passages, looking specifically at elements such as diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax.

Essay Topic 2

In an essay, discuss how the novel deals with suicide and what the author seems to be saying about the subject.

Essay Topic 3

Most of the novel is set in the summer of 1969, but the final chapter takes place 50 years later. In an essay, consider how this affects the novel's central messages.

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