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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 is Kristina's last name in the novel?

2. What character in the novel is highly intelligent and enrolled in advanced academic classes in school?

3. How old is Ashante in the novel?

4. Hunter has a radio remote show from the game between UNR and what team in the novel?

5. Kristina's mother flies to __________ to care for Kristina after she is beat up by her boyfriend.

Short Essay Questions

1. What upsets Autumn about her aunt's evolving relationship with Liam in the novel?

2. How do Hunter's insecurities about his family impact his current relationship in the novel?

3. Why is Nikki upset about her family in the beginning of the novel? How does Hunter relate?

4. Describe the stylistic elements of Fallout. How is the novel divided into sections? What effect does the style have on the reader?

5. What leads up to Summer's confrontation with Erica in the novel? How do Matt and Kyle react to this confrontation?

6. Describe Summer's family and living arrangements in the beginning of the novel. What separated Summer from her father?

7. Where is Hunter working when he is first approached and flirted with by fans in the novel?

8. Describe Autumn's emotional status in the beginning of the novel. What is the cause of Autumn's feelings of isolation?

9. Why does Marie Haskins go to Las Vegas in the novel? What does Hunter learn has happened with his mother there?

10. How does Summer feel about her father in the beginning of the novel? What is her relationship with her mother like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of sexual abuse in the novel. Which characters have been abused and by whom? Who is to blame for the abuse that Kristina's children have suffered and why? In what ways did Kristina herself face sexual abuse?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the character of Brendan in the narrative. What does Hunter realize about Brendan when he finally confronts him? How does this discovery change Hunter's perception of his history and himself in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the career of author Ellen Hopkins and discuss the principle characters, subjects and themes in the Crank series. How old is Kristina Snow when she is introduced in the first novel, Crank? What are the effects of Kristina's actions in the first two novels? How do the first two novels of the series relate to the subjects in Fallout?

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