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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. For whom does everyone raise a toast during Will's birthday party in Chapter 20?

2. During their date in Chapter 18, what does Stella say regarding the afterlife?

3. What causes Stella to fall off the footbridge in Chapter 24?

4. What does Will confess frightens him in Chapter 23?

5. What is Stella's reaction when she falls off the footbridge in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Will changed in Chapter 30? What are his plans?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 17, how does Stella prepare for her date with Will? What obstacles does she face?

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

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

8. Discuss the effects Abby's death has had on Stella's present state.

9. Over what do Will and his mother argue in Chapter 20? What realization does Will have after their argument?

10. How has Stella become more fatalistic as the novel progresses? How has Will become more hopeful? How do Chapters 23 and 24 particularly illustrate this change?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Will’s relationship with his mother with Poe’s relationship with his mother. How are they similar, and how are they different?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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