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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. With what gesture had Evvie and Andy always ended their weekly breakfasts before Andy began dating Monica seriously?
(a) A piggyback ride.
(b) A kiss.
(c) A high-five.
(d) A hug.

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

3. How many months does Evvie report it had taken her to fully absorb that her mother was never coming back to finish raising her?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

4. Dean tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 14 that if he wanted to talk about what subject, he would have stayed in Manhattan?
(a) The stock market.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Romance.
(d) Pitching.

5. In what location does Evvie find Dean when she goes out in the middle of the night to follow him in Fall: Chapter 14?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) The batting cages.
(c) Dacey Park.
(d) The riverbank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dean discusses with Evvie a time when a doctor had joked about the horrendous conditions of which part of his body shown in an MRI?

2. Which one of Evvie's family members had once made a nasty comment about hair, causing her to enter a period of "battle" (191) with her natural appearance?

3. Which character brought Evvie home the night of Tim's death?

4. Evvie thinks about a photograph of herself at about age nine in which she is happily engaging in what activity with her father?

5. To whom does Dean give the key to room number 208 in the Stafford Hotel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the symbolism inherent in the scar on Evvie's foot?

3. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Evvie experiences conflicting emotions when Dean tells her that he had wanted to kiss her several times during their day trip to Boston.

4. Characterize the relationship between Evvie and her father Frank.

5. What two recent developments with Dean does Evvie briefly consider sharing with Andy on the day Monica and Evvie first meet?

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

7. How does Holmes use the motif of sound in order to demonstrate Dean's love for the game of baseball?

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

9. Who is Monica?

10. For what reason does Dean decide to travel to Boston and back in one day?

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