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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. Tanner joins Crossroads to make it popular because of what reason?

2. Clem’s girlfriend Sharon is how many inches shorter than he is?

3. Who was hired at the church first as an associate pastor?

4. Becky’s friend Kim likes having sex at summer camp for what reason?

5. What are the two sides of Clem’s personality that he feels he needs in order to kill the enemy in Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frances want to do with the marijuana she finds in Larry’s bedroom?

2. Why does Marion believe that her “acting had mesmerized Bradley Grant,” and does this make her more like her actress sister Shirley?

3. What effect does the author present by mentioning Russ’s “humiliation” in the early pages of the book, but not explaining what happened for several hundred pages into the reading?

4. Why do Frances and Russ ignore Pastor Theo Crenshaw’s advice to leave the neighborhood boy Ronnie alone?

5. Why does Shirley give $13,000 to Becky in a will as an inheritance?

6. Why is Russ upset that Frances calls Ambrose a “genius” for his work with the church teen group Crossroads?

7. Who does Becky go to Crossroads group meetings with first?

8. Why does Perry say that he is “damned” at the Haefle party, when he gets caught getting drunk by his mother?

9. Why does Marion call Shirley’s acting insignificant, by referring to her as a “pretty face who memorized lines”?

10. Why does Russ wear his old work coat when he is around Frances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay detailing the reasons why Marion released Russ to be happy on his own and pursue a relationship with Frances. Why was Marion happy that Russ was trying to have an affair with Frances?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay as to why Becky felt throughout most of the novel that her parents were working in concert to ruin her life. All teens may feel this way from time to time, but what concrete evidence did Becky have that her parents were out to get her and make her perpetually unhappy?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on why Russ ran away from Frances when they were smoking marijuana in her kitchen, when she was obviously trying to get him in the mood to have sex. It was what Russ had said he had wanted from Frances, but why did he fail to have sex with her in her house, when given the chance? What did this say about Russ’s character and integrity?

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