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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 many hours' drive each way is the trip to pick up Dean's new pinball machine?
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. Evvie slams her laptop closed after looking at pictures of two of Dean's ex-girlfriends, who are described as being employed in what positions?
4. Evvie repeatedly describes Dean's smile as taking up what fraction of his face?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Dean come to pitch an inning at the exhibition game between the Claws and the team from Freeport?
2. What is the symbolism inherent in the scar on Evvie's foot?
3. For what reason does Evvie refrain from telling Andy about recent developments with Dean?
4. Who is Monica?
5. Describe an instance when the use of a third person omniscient narrator helps Holmes demonstrate duplicity.
6. 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.
7. With what information does Andy confront Evvie in Winter: Chapter 18 when he arrives unannounced at her house after ten at night?
8. From what angle does Evvie claim not to have seen "Calcasset in "forever" (119) as she and Dean drive toward Boston?
9. Discuss an instance in the text when Holmes uses humor in order to clearly illustrate a particular character's fear of change.
10. On what possible next step do Evvie and Dean agree once Evvie shares that she is not ready to date anyone?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is Holmes sending in the novel about the nature and value of having compassion for oneself?
Essay Topic 2
How is the topic of hope treated within Evvie Drake Starts Over and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Holmes's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Evvie Drake Starts Over.
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