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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 was Dave doing?

2. What did Howie suggest that Dave not do?

3. What is Kate late for this time?

4. What did Kate wish her yogurt were?

5. What time does Kate have her students?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was David making for dinner and who all was invited for dinner?

2. How was it evident that Dave loved Kate?

3. Why did Kate consider David to be the enemy?

4. What prompted Kate and Dave's closeness in the kitchen and resulted in Kate dropping her crutches?

5. How did Dave know who the camera belonged to?

6. Why does David want to teach Kate how to play football?

7. Why was it okay in David's mind to be tuned out?

8. Why did Elsie call Kate stupid?

9. Why did Kate get so worked up about her mom coming for dinner on Saturday?

10. Why was David considering buying Kate three Porsches?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why romance is seldom like it is in books. What elements are usually missing in real life? What kinds of things do the characters do, or that they experience, appears to be fantastical in elements, or situations?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the symbolism of the kittens. What does her kitten represent to Kate? Why is she so distraught when the kitten is missing? Speculate on the gifts of multiple kittens. What kind of symbol do you think this could represent?

Essay Topic 3

Janet Evanovich juxtaposes many different characters along side each other in her novels. What do you think is the purpose of such juxtaposition? How well do you think Kate and Dave are suited to each other? Grace and Michael? Elsie and Gus? Explain your answers.

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