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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 Travis drink shots of at the Valentine’s Day party in Chapter 20?

2. Abby says in Chapter 11, “One of the reasons I had chosen Eastern U was for its” what?

3. What is the title of Chapter 11?

4. Whom does Travis beat up in the cafeteria for his comments to Abby in Chapter 11?

5. Where is Travis wearing a bandage when he arrives home in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What confrontation takes place when Abby and America go to Travis’s apartment in Chapter 18?

2. Who do Travis and Abby encounter outside at the party in Chapter 13?

3. Where are Abby and her friends in Chapter 15? What is the objective in this setting?

4. What news of Abby’s father does America relate to her in Chapter 14?

5. What leads up to the fight between Travis and a costumed pirate in Chapter 11?

6. What do Travis and Parker say about each other to Abby in Chapter 12?

7. What is Abby’s outlook in the beginning of Chapter 18? When does the chapter begin?

8. What conflict arises surrounding Abby during the fight that Travis is engaged in, in Chapter 19?

9. Who is Jesse, and what is Abby’s response when she encounters him in Chapter 15?

10. What is the outcome of the fight in Chapter 16? What offer has Travis received?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Abby’s reaction after having consummated her relationship with Travis in Chapter 9. What does Abby do after she and Travis sleep together? How does Travis respond when he awakens alone in bed? When and how is this issue resolved?

Essay Topic 2

Define “motif” in narrative literature, and discuss the motif of fighting in the novel. Why does Travis engage in the fights on campus? What draws the other students to watch the fights? What do you think this recurring backdrop represents symbolically in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of gambling in Beautiful Disaster. What is the bet that is placed between Abby and Travis? Why does Abby engage in the bet? What is the outcome? How does this motif apply to Abby’s past?

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