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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 trip does Janie ask Mr. Durbin to arrange?

2. What does Mr. Durbin ask Janie to make fliers for?

3. What does Janie have trouble admitting to Cabel after she gets home from the grocery store?

4. What is Janie doing when Mr. Durbin touches her for the first time?

5. How old does Janie turn on her birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Janie think of Stacey's dream, and why?

2. Why do Janie and Cabel go to school separately?

3. What happens to Janie after reading the warning in the green notebook?

4. What does Mr. Wang talk to Janie about on her birthday?

5. What is the warning at the beginning of the green notebook?

6. How does Janie know Miss Stubin?

7. Why does Janie allow Mr. Durbin's inappropriate conduct to continue unchallenged?

8. What is Cabel's occupation?

9. When does Janie finally admit her true feelings for Cabel?

10. What does Janie try to see when her mother is dreaming at the beginning of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and define their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Lisa McMann have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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