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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 color is Janie's hair?

2. In which country do the students travel on the upcoming school trip mentioned in the novel?

3. What is Reeve doing in chapter four, when Janie abandons her snack?

4. Janie finds a trunk in chapter seven, what is the trunk labeled with?

5. To where does Hannah eventually move?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reeve's and Janie's relationship grow in chapter two?

2. Explain Janie's feelings about the kiss between her and Reeve.

3. How does going to the football game with Reeve and Sarah-Charlotte make Janie feel? Explain.

4. What is the significance of the school trip to Spain?

5. Why is Janie at cake decorating class? And what happens while she is there?

6. Why does Janie resist going on a drive with Adair and Sarah-Charlotte in chapter six?

7. What does Janie bring up in chapter eight, when she finally decides to confront her parents?

8. Explain the situation when Janie returns home after hearing about Jason's birth certificate.

9. Describe the conversation that Reeve has with Janie while at the Scenic Overlook in chapter two.

10. Why is Janie reluctant to make conversation with her parents at dinner in chapter eight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the lack in progression in Janie's relationship with Reeve mirror Janie's progression in discovering the truth of her past?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel there are many symbols of Janie's tarnished childhood. What are they and how do they lend to the theme that Janie's childhood is tainted?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think the author of the novel leaves the book open-ended? Do you expect a sequel? Why or why not?

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