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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 the family do as they drove to Disney World?

2. April decides to phone Larry and gets his father on the phone. What does he tell her?

3. What stops April from leaving the theater all together?

4. April leaves the lobby and goes into the movie theater's restroom. What does she overhear there?

5. April would have to lie to get away from Grove City. How does she convince herself this is okay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does April find out about from Jodi while she is talking to her at Disney World? How does she feel about this?

2. April decides the only way to handle what she found out from Jodi is to continue playing tennis and going out with Larry. What happens at Amy's party? How does Larry react?

3. On the second day of April and Lorelei's drive to Florida, April notices something suspicious about a car behind them. What is it?

4. Why is Steve waiting for her at airport when April returns to Norwood?

5. When April and Lorelei reach the house in Grove City, the Corrigans' car is nose down in a ditch. It is empty and so is the house. What does April suddenly see that terrifies her?

6. The day after Amy's party, April is hungover and depressed. What does her father tell her that makes everything seem so bad that she just wants to get out and go back to Norwood?

7. April had agreed to go to a movie with Larry because it was a group event. At the movie she meets Abby, who sat next to her on the plane. How does April handle this situation?

8. The day after April's father tells her she can't go to the university of her choice, she has made a decision to go home to Norwood. How does she plan to do this?

9. Once the movie date starts, April is uncomfortable for a couple of reasons besides meeting Abby. Why?

10. When April returns to Norwood, she gets a rude awakening about Steve. What does she learn? What does she ask Steve to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The protagonist of a story is not always portrayed in a completely positive light. In many novels, the protagonist makes a change or comes to a realization about some aspect of their life. April is in the process of growing up when she is yanked away from her almost picture-perfect life. How is the role of the protagonist portrayed in Don't Look Behind You? Give at least five examples from the novel that show how April changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

In many novels and other works of fiction, the protagonist has a tragic flaw that has a large impact on the story. Define tragic flaw and give three specific examples of April's tragic flaw. With each example, explain how her actions are detrimental to others.

Essay Topic 3

Explain what foreshadowing is and how it is used in Don't Look Behind You, citing three examples. Two of your examples may come from Chapter 1, but the third must come from later in the book.

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