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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 does Stella discover is getting worse in Chapter 7?

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

3. When Stella confronts Will in Chapter 5, she realizes she forgot to wear what?

4. Where in the hospital does Stella go to watch newborns with CF?

5. What does Abby shout in the video Stella watches in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What impact is Stella having on Will's health, as described in Chapter 8?

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

4. According to Will in Chapter 10, in which type of art is he most interested? Why?

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

6. Who is Poe and what is special about him? What does the reader learn about him the novel's opening chapters?

7. What does Poe tell Will about himself in Chapter 12? What effect does this have on Will?

8. What does Barb tell Stella about B. cepacia in the third chapter? How does she react to the information?

9. What does Stella remember about Arizona in Chapter 11? How does this memory contribute to Stella's feelings of guilt?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of distance as it pertains to the lives of Stella and Will.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring how Will’s relationship with his mother changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

What is B. cepacia and what role does it play in the development of Stella and Will? How would the development of these characters change (or not) had this infection not been a part of the story?

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