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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 the title of Chapter 18?
2. How much notice does Abby have before meeting Travis’s father and brothers in Chapter 12?
3. When Abby and America return to the guys’ apartment for the date party at the fraternity in Chapter 14, every surface of the place is covered in what?
4. Who calls Travis while he’s in the shower in the beginning of Chapter 11?
5. What is the title of Chapter 15?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Travis and Parker say about each other to Abby in Chapter 12?
2. What conversations does Abby have with Parker and Travis in the beginning of Chapter 17?
3. What is Travis’s response when Abby asks why he wants to be with her in Chapter 12?
4. Where do Abby and Travis encounter one another on Valentine’s Day in Chapter 20?
5. What resolution have Abby and Travis reached at the end if Chapter 20?
6. What conversation takes place between Travis’s father and Abby while she’s visiting for Thanksgiving in Chapter 17?
7. What exchange takes place when Abby and Travis awaken in Chapter 11?
8. What news of Abby’s father does America relate to her in Chapter 14?
9. How does Abby’s father need her help in Chapter 14? What is Abby’s response to this request?
10. What purchases does Abby discover that Travis has made in the beginning of Chapter 13?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sexuality in Beautiful Disaster
a. Discuss the differences and similarities between male and female sexuality in the novel. How does Travis view women? Do his views change in the course of the novel?
b. How are the characters of Abby and America similar? How do they differ? Are their views on sexuality similar or different?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Describe the fight that Travis is called to participate in, in Chapter 4. Whom is Travis fighting? What college is this student from? Why does the fact that Travis is fighting a student from a different school make a difference in terms of Abby’s safety?
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