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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 is Stella's job at rehearsals while next to Meredith's side?

2. What kind of background does Bunny come from?

3. What do Meredith and Bunny laugh about at night in the hotel lounge?

4. Who gives Stella the coat with the fur collar?

5. In the opening of Chapter 8, who is released from the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stella feel after upsetting Lily and what does she do about it?

2. What two injuries occur during the football match?

3. What does Richard think about the situation with Dawn?

4. What is the third production in the book that the company will put on, and who will play the lead?

5. What new production in Chapter 6 is the theater going to be putting on, and what role was Stella given?

6. What is happening with Richard during the rehearsals in Chapter 7 for the third play of the book?

7. How does Stella feel about going to the after-party?

8. Why does Stella not wear the coat that Lily got her?

9. How does O'Hara feel about Stella?

10. What does Stella say that she does to practice for bad situations?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author foreshadow Stella's phone call at the end of the book? Include how it is set up and ultimately how it ends.

Essay Topic 2

Tell of the ways that Stella lets the reader know that she feels unworthy and undeserving of anything good.

Essay Topic 3

Did starting the book with a flash-forward add to the quality of the book or inhibit it? What are the benefits, as the reader, to having the information from the flash-forward? What are the drawbacks to being given the flash-forward?

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