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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jeff surprised to find on his report card, though his father is not?
(a) All Fs
(b) All Bs
(c) All Ds
(d) All As

2. Jeff suggests that Melody keep the _____________ instead of selling it.
(a) Car
(b) Painting
(c) Engagement ring
(d) Jade ring

3. Jeff thinks the Tillermans worry not about _____________, but about living right for each other, together.
(a) Perfection
(b) Truth
(c) Happiness
(d) Peace

4. ____________ doesn't try to get in touch with Jeff after the incident they shared.
(a) Maybeth
(b) Melody
(c) Dicey
(d) Wilhemina

5. Jeff feels sorry for Melody who never knew what the real ____________ were, according to him.
(a) Pictures
(b) Treasures
(c) Prizes
(d) Herons

6. When Dicey becomes angry with Jeff, he begins to feel the same way he felt when ____________ was angry with him.
(a) Gambo
(b) Melody
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) The Professor

7. Melody asks if they can put everything behind them and Jeff says that he ______________.
(a) Isn't sure
(b) Already has
(c) Never will
(d) Thinks that's not fair

8. Dicey asks Jeff to go _____________ and he almost says no, but accepts and is glad that he did.
(a) Sailing
(b) To the prom
(c) To the bar
(d) To her room

9. ____________ enjoys watching the herons and playing the guitar, content finally in his solitude.
(a) Jeff
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Ian
(d) The Professor

10. Brother Thomas sends Jeff ____________ about his father from national magazines and papers.
(a) Articles
(b) Emails
(c) Music
(d) Phone conversations

11. Jeff tells the Professor that Melody had said she would have taken him with her had Jeff been _____________.
(a) A baby
(b) Not like his father
(c) An older man
(d) A girl

12. There is something about the girl Jeff meets that reminds him of his island in _______________.
(a) South Carolina
(b) North Carolina
(c) Maryland
(d) Maine

13. What is Jeff on again during his sophomore year of high school, though he would never have thought it to be the case?
(a) Academic probation
(b) Detention list
(c) Honor roll
(d) Advanced students list

14. A girl seems to be drawn against her will by the ______________ when Jeff is outside.
(a) Music
(b) Wind
(c) Herons
(d) Sunshine

15. When does Jeff sit outside the school and play guitar in order to work on some songs?
(a) Lunch hour
(b) Last free period
(c) First free period
(d) He doesn't

Short Answer Questions

1. Jeff feels that if he didn't keep all of his emotions hidden away, he would fall apart into ______________.

2. Who called the Professor and told him about Jeff's performance in school, though Jeff had tried to hide it?

3. Jeff realizes he would really treasure the ________________ as a connection to the past.

4. Jeff has emotionally gone inside of himself, to a small ______ where he locked the memories of his day and night spent on the beach.

5. That summer, Jeff decides to set up a _____________ business with the Tillermans.

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