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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Evvie answer Dr. Talco when she asks during their first appointment how Evvie is sleeping?
(a) Soundly.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Fine.
(d) Great.

2. Which character brought Evvie home the night of Tim's death?
(a) Lila.
(b) Andy.
(c) Frank.
(d) Kell.

3. In Spring: Chapter 26, Evvie reflects upon the fact that once which month arrives, it will have been two years since Tim's death?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) December.

4. How old had Evvie just turned when she first asked her father whether it was her fault that her mother had left them?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

5. Dean tells Evvie that during her first baseball lesson, she is going to concentrate solely on what skill?
(a) Throwing.
(b) Sliding.
(c) Batting.
(d) Running.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andy tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 18 that he knows it had been whose suitcase in the back of Evvie's car the day of Tim's accident?

2. At the end of Spring: Chapter 24, Evvie and Dean makes plans to have dinner together outside of town on which day of the week?

3. What objects does Evvie incorporate into her text messages, with each color representing a different emotion?

4. In Winter: Chapter 19, Dean is not a part of spring training for the first time in how many years?

5. On what day of the week does Andy text Evvie that he will have to miss their standing Saturday breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Holmes use the motif of sound to demonstrate Dean's grief at finding that he has lost the ability to pitch?

2. For what length of time has Tim been gone by the time Evvie first meets with Dr. Talco?

3. On what possible next step do Evvie and Dean agree once Evvie shares that she is not ready to date anyone?

4. What does the blue suitcase in the narrative symbolize?

5. How does Evvie inwardly react to Andy's suggestion that if she wanted to, she could also start dating again someday?

6. What piece of jewelry does Evvie remove before she heads out of town with Dean and why is this moment significant?

7. What is ironic about Evvie's first visit to the office of Dr. Jane Talco?

8. Describe an instance when the use of a third person omniscient narrator helps Holmes demonstrate duplicity.

9. With what information does Andy confront Evvie in Winter: Chapter 18 when he arrives unannounced at her house after ten at night?

10. What story does Evvie tell Dean that causes Dean's mouth to fall open in Spring: Chapter 28?

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