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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. Who comes to tell Abby while she’s in the kitchen on Thanksgiving that she means a lot to Travis in Chapter 17?

2. What is the title of Chapter 18?

3. Who calls Travis while he’s in the shower in the beginning of Chapter 11?

4. Travis tells Abby that the first fight he’ll do for Benny is in how much time, in Chapter 16?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What resolution have Abby and Travis reached at the end if Chapter 20?

4. How is Abby’s “date” with Parker described in Chapter 19?

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

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

7. What is Travis’s response when Abby asks why he wants to be with her in Chapter 12?

8. Where do Abby and Travis encounter one another on Valentine’s Day in Chapter 20?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Mick Abernathy in Beautiful Disaster. How has Abby’s father been able to track down her location? How does she respond to seeing him? What help does Mick ask for from Abby? How does she respond?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of America Mason in Beautiful Disaster. How did America become friends with Abby? Where did they meet? What has brought America to the same college as Abby?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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