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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 year does William's book about basketball begin?
2. How tall is Rose Padavano?
3. Where is Kent from?
4. After Charlie's death, where does Rose decide to move?
5. In 1982, how many surgeries does William need to have when his knee has to be reconstructed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Sylvie sleep during the three-month gap between when she stops sleeping at William and Julia's apartment and when she got her own place?
2. How does Rose react when she learns Cecelia is pregnant?
3. In 1982, why does William have to quit playing basketball?
4. What conversation do William and Sylvie have outside William and Julia's apartment one night, and why does it feel dangerous later?
5. What is the house and neighborhood like where the Padavano family lives?
6. How does William begin playing basketball?
7. After Sylvie has to drop out of college, how is she able to reenroll?
8. What happens when Julia takes Rose to the airport?
9. What does Julia realize about the way she convinced William to go to graduate school?
10. What does William receive from his father when he is in the hospital recuperating from his knee injury in 1982?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Alice grows up alone with Julia without extended family. Izzy grows up in a busy household and develops strong relationships with her aunts and their partners. How does the way that the women grow up affect the type of women they become?
Essay Topic 2
Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make comparisons between things. Metaphors seem to imply an equal comparison, while similes seem to imply a similarity between two things. Does Napolitano use more metaphors or similes in Hello Beautiful? How does the use of metaphors or similes help readers comprehend concepts and visualize scenes?
Essay Topic 3
Alice and Julia have one another and very few other people. How would you describe the relationship between Julia and Alice? How does that relationship affect Alice and the influence the type of person she becomes?
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