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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 Randy present as a gift to Wallace when he comes back into the room to see him?

2. Jen and Wallace both decide to get ___________ chocolate ice cream as they like to eat ice cream together.

3. What happens a few years later, though it does not change their relationship? Jen __________ Kathleen.

4. The woman gets rid of the item from #131 when she realized she would nor recover from ____________ the child who found it.

5. How much money has Jen been living on each week, which leads her to believe that she needs to earn more?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jen tell Randy about their Uncle Colin when they are drinking and cleaning together?

2. What does Jen think about the other people in the town that are very paranoid about their lives and their surroundings?

3. What does Jen do when she turns on the radio, trying to work out a new feeling she has about the tumor Wallace has?

4. What begins to happen to Wallace as he starts his weekly radiation treatments, to which Jen drives him?

5. What happens when Jen gets a phone call later in the day, inviting her to come to a party with others?

6. What does the doctor tells Wallace about the tumor mass that they removed from his brain during the previous surgery?

7. What do Kathleen and Jen decide to do when Wallace is going to lay down for a nap for a while?

8. What is the agreement that Jen makes with Megan before they go to see Megan's great aunt Honey?

9. What does Jen's father begin to do as he begins to feel better after the surgery and is healing well?

10. Why doesn't Randy go to see his dad when his dad is finally being released from the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jen doesn't tell Eric about the brain tumor because she thinks it might make him feel obligated to stay.

Part 1: Do you think Jen should have told Eric what was happening?

Part 2: How do you think Eric would have reacted to this news?

Part 3: Why do you think Eric was a person Jen didn't want to tell?

Essay Topic 2

Wallace pretends to feel bad about the death of the cat, for Jen's benefit.

Part 1: Why do you think Wallace doesn't feel bad about the cat?

Part 2: How do you think Jen would feel if no one was sympathetic about the death?

Part 3: Do you think the cat's death reminds Jen about her father's mortality? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The children in the family seem to have a lot of troubles, but they are still close and loving to each other.

Part 1: Why do you think children have a hard time relating to their siblings as they grow up?

Part 2: How did you relate to your siblings as you got older? What about when you were younger?

Part 3: Can siblings be loving, even if they pick on each other?

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