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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. According to Stella in Chapter 19, what was her childhood nickname?

2. In Chapter 15, where does Stella ask Will to meet her?

3. In Chapter 21, the CFers are informed they will all be confined to their rooms until what tests are run?

4. In Chapter 24, how does Stella feel about the new lungs waiting for her?

5. Who delivers food to those waiting for Stella to emerge from surgery in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Will and Stella's date end in Chapter 19? How do they avoid detection?

2. Why does Will leave the hospital for good? What does he ask Stella to do first?

3. How has Stella changed in Chapter 31? What are her plans?

4. What does Stella experience as she is in the icy pond in Chapter 25?

5. In Chapter 22, why does Will decide to leave the hospital for good?

6. Why do Poe and Stella argue in Chapter 15? How does their argument end?

7. What convinces Stella to take the lungs in Chapter 27?

8. How is Stella's life saved after she falls in the pond?

9. Who is Michael? What does Stella learn about him in Chapter 15?

10. What agreement has Will come to with his mother in Chapter 30?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of both Stella and Will affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one of their perspectives?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay defining love from Stella’s perspective. What is love, according to Stella? How does her choices over the course of the novel reflect these values?

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