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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. When Julia is pregnant, what does William like to eat for breakfast?

2. What does Ernie bring Sylvie when he visits her apartment for the first time?

3. By the time William reluctantly allows Julia to read his book, how long has he been writing it?

4. What player does Arash ask William to observe when they sit in the bleachers and have their lunch one day?

5. What is the mascot at Northwestern?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rose react when she learns Cecelia is pregnant?

2. What is said about Charlie during his wake?

3. What are meals like at the Padavano home, and what do they serve William when he comes to dinner for the first time?

4. What does Julia realize about the way she convinced William to go to graduate school?

5. What does William receive from his father when he is in the hospital recuperating from his knee injury in 1982?

6. Is William an only child?

7. What thoughts does William have after he lets Julia read his book?

8. What happens when Julia takes Rose to the airport?

9. What conversation do William and Sylvie have outside William and Julia's apartment one night, and why does it feel dangerous later?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of Hello Beautiful? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

Sylvie feels that her mother does not like her as much as she likes her siblings. How would you describe the relationship between Sylvie and her mother? Why are Sylvie and her mother not close?

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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