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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. How old was Lydia when she received her first diary as a Christmas gift?

2. In Chapter 3, whose face has Marilyn always wanted to be the face she saw before she died?

3. Where did James go to college?

4. In Chapter 5, where does Hannah notice that her father has a hole in his sock?

5. What does Marilyn do in Chapter 5 after James leaves for his ten o'clock class?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hannah feel about Lydia leaving and how might she have felt if she knew about her mother's disappearance?

2. How does Jack treat girls?

3. What did Marilyn's college advisor say when he say her first year class schedule?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Marilyn remember Lydia doing when she was eleven months old?

5. What was it like at the lake when the whole family went?

6. What did James realize after Marilyn disappeared?

7. In what ways do Marilyn and Lydia look alike?

8. What did the local newspaper say about Lydia after her funeral?

9. In Chapter 1, what does Marilyn find when she goes to Lydia's room?

10. How would Lydia and Nath fall asleep each evening while their mother was gone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

James and Marilyn fight about Lydia's death. Why are they so frustrated with one another and how the other person is handling Lydia's death?

Essay Topic 2

Marilyn did not approve of her mother's choices in life. Why didn't Marilyn approve of her mother's choices in life and how did her disapproval of those choices affect the choices that Marilyn made in her own life?

Essay Topic 3

Lydia believed strongly in promises. When did Lydia make a promise that she kept for the rest of life? How did that promise shape her life and why didn't Lydia ever break it?

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