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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 do the students want to include on the model?
(a) Road signs and animals.
(b) Road signs and store signs.
(c) People and animals.
(d) People and stoplights.

2. What had Mclean's parents not realized about her?
(a) She is thinking of changing majors.
(b) She wants to live with her mother.
(c) She is in love with David.
(d) She has had a lot of stress since their divorce.

3. Where will Mclean be going instead of going to Hawaii?
(a) Morrison.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Petree.
(d) Tyler.

4. Whom does Mclean call when she is distraught at the hotel?
(a) Opal.
(b) David.
(c) Her father.
(d) Deb.

5. What shop does Mclean enter after she walks to town?
(a) Antiques.
(b) Cafe.
(c) Bakery.
(d) Book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mclean's father tell her when she comes home from school one day?

2. What are Opal and the other restaurant workers talking about in Chapter 12?

3. Why is Gus pleased about the inclement weather?

4. Mclean learns that home isn't actually a specific location, it is ________________________.

5. What does Mclean do when she thinks that her mother doesn't really want her at the beach house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Mclean and Deb especially enjoy going to Riley's house for dinner?

2. Explain the foreshadowing used by the author when she mentions Mclean's old car?

3. What does Lindsay do with Mclean's father at the restaurant that flusters Opal and starts to make Mclean feel like she's on shaky ground?

4. What does Mclean offer to do in exchange for her mother dropping the new custody arrangement?

5. How does Gus show his commitment to making the restaurant a success?

6. What do her friends confront Mclean about that makes her run from the restaurant where she had been helping with the model?

7. What options does Mclean have regarding her father's move to Hawaii?

8. What is unusual about Mclean's seeing her mother on TV when David and his father are over watching the game?

9. What does Mclean learn about why her mother has met with an attorney?

10. What are Mclean's evolving thoughts about what home really is as she and her parents talk about the future?

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