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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. How does Will appear to Stella in Chapter 31?

2. Where is the third stop Stella sends Will during his birthday surprise in Chapter 20?

3. What object does Stella use to illustrate the distance she plans to keep from Will?

4. Where does Stella go to be alone at the end of Chapter 21?

5. What does Will ask Stella to do so that he can leave in Chapter 29?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What personal information does Will share with Stella during their date in Chapter 18?

4. How does Will's birthday party end? What are the CFers told?

5. What are the results of the tests in Chapter 28? How does Will react to the news?

6. What news does Stella get in Chapter 23? How does she react to this news?

7. What do Will and Stella believe about the afterlife, according to their conversation in Chapter 18?

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

9. What emergency occurs in Chapter 21? How does Stella react?

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

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

Essay Topic 2

Risk taking (or its opposite, playing it safe) plays a big role in the lives of the main characters. Discuss how this idea is illustrated by the lives of Stella, Will, and Poe. How does the behavior of each reflect their characters as well as the themes of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How would you classify this novel? Is it a romance novel? A coming-of-age novel? A chronic illness novel? All of the above? How does the novel’s classification affect your understanding of the novel?

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