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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 Lydia not know, as revealed in Chapter 27?

2. What is the subject of Kyle’s dream in Chapter 32?

3. How does Kyle describe Marley at the end of Chapter 38?

4. Where does Kyle catch Marley watching him in Chapter 39?

5. Whom does Kyle see leaving his room at the end of Chapter 29?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kyle experience in Chapter 25?

2. What happens to Kyle’s search for Marley in Chapter 34?

3. What happens to Kyle at the end of Chapter 24?

4. What does Sam refuse to do in Chapter 33? Why?

5. Why does Kyle apologize to Catherine in Chapter 44? Why does she reject his apology?

6. What shocking information does Kyle learn in Chapter 27? How does Dr. Benefield explain Kyle’s experiences?

7. How does Kyle compare his relationships with Kim and Marley in Chapter 30?

8. Why do Sam and Kyle argue in Chapter 28?

9. What does Marley rescue in Chapter 19? What does this scene illustrate about Marley?

10. What does Kyle give Marley when he encounters her in the gift shop in Chapter 37? How does she react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the influence Kyle’s mother has on his character and on the story as a whole.

Essay Topic 2

Kyle experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does he change and in what ways does he remain the same? By the novel’s end, is he better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Kyle finds himself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the novel and on the other characters.

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