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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 Brian tell Tibby at the park after the dance?

2. What flavor jellybeans do Carmen and Tibby send Lena to cheer her up?

3. What flavor ice cream does Valia get when she stops to get ice cream on the way to her doctor's appointment?

4. When Carmen visits Tibby in Chapter 16, what does she say she sees?

5. In Chapter 9, who does Valia say separated from his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what does Bridget's conversation with Naughton make her realize about Eric?

2. How does Carmen discover that her mother is pregnant?

3. Why is Tibby conflicted about going to film school?

4. In Chapter 14, how is an average day of Bridget's described?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Carmen's mom tell her about her pregnancy?

6. What does Brian ask Tibby in Chapter 2, and what is her response?

7. In Chapter 7, what does Carmen worry about when she thinks of the fall?

8. Why does Tibby feel guilty about Katherine's injuries?

9. What happens to Carmen in the hospital in Chapter 12?

10. What happens when Lena talks with her parents about school in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Tibby's sister's accident impact Tibby throughout the novel? What do the tree and helmet represent? How does the accident help Tibby to grow or not grow?

Essay Topic 2

What does Carmen fear in this novel? How does she overcome her fears and what does this mean to her as a character?

Essay Topic 3

Explain how Tibby's job at the movie theater both stalls her progress as a character and helps her to grow as a character.

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