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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. Why is Poe in the hospital?

2. Who admonishes Stella's parents in Chapter 14?

3. What has Stella been hard at work creating?

4. How are Stella and Poe able to eat meals together?

5. What does Stella do with Will following lunch with her mother in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What medical equipment is necessary to Stella's health?

2. How has Will affected Stella's anxiety? What solution does she propose in Chapter 6? What is Will's response?

3. Why has Will come to Saint Grace's Hospital?

4. What are some things Will learns about Stella during his all-night marathon of her videos in Chapter 4?

5. Why is Will looking forward to his birthday? What are his plans?

6. What does Stella experience as she is placed under anesthesia in Chapter 13?

7. Over what do Poe and Stella argue in Chapter 7?

8. How does Stella decorate her hospital room at the beginning of the novel?

9. What is Abby doing in the video Stella watches in Chapter 9?

10. What does Will come to believe about Abby in Chapter 10? What leads him to this realization?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What might Stella be like had she never lost her sister Abby? Argue for an alternative reality based on what the reader knows of Stella’s history, actions, and beliefs.

Essay Topic 2

The characters in the novel have all faced obstacles, setbacks, or even failures that influenced their characters and the plot of the novel. Choose three characters and analyze how their challenges affected both the individual character as well as the novel as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

Stella finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

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