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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 is Gabi disappointed about when she talks to Martin about going to The Grind Effect?

2. What does Gabi write about on March 16 that Georgina tells her that shocks her?

3. what price does Gabi sell her zine at The Grind Effect for?

4. What does Gabi's mother say when Gabi is accepted into her dream school?

5. What is the major consequence of Beto and Gabi's mother's fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gabi's Christmas with her family go?

2. What does Gabi think of the experience of seeing Cindy give birth?

3. What does Gabi get in the mail the day after Christmas that she is excited about?

4. Who comes to the hospital and stays in the room with Gabi's mother while Gabi's mother has the baby?

5. What happens to Gabi's dad right after Christmas?

6. What does Gabi realize is going on between Martin and Lindsay when they go to the poetry performance together in January at The Grind Effect?

7. What does Martin get Gabi for her birthday that she loves?

8. How does Gabi feel about her poetry study-date with Martin in December?

9. What plans does Gabi have to cancel in order to work on poetry with Martin in December?

10. What ends up happening between Georgina and Gabi after Georgina confides in Gabi about her big secret?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Gabi loves her family fiercely, she dreams of leaving her hometown to attend college, which she is poised to do at the novel's end after being admitted to Berkeley. Write an essay analyzing the ways in which Gabi chooses to break with her family's traditions and expectations of her.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing how Gabi's relationship with her mother changes over the course of the novel, paying special attention to both the tensions and areas of common ground the two characters experience.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing how Gabi's eulogy for her father embodies her complex feelings about him and their relationship.

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