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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. Where is Clare going to College?

2. What does Aidan's father do for a living?

3. Who is sitting at the table where Aidan and Clare usually sit at the pizza place?

4. Who is scraping for coins to pay at the pizza place?

5. Where did Aidan and Scotty meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it odd that Aidan did not tell Claire he did not apply to Harvard?

2. How are Clare and Aidan spending their last night together before they go to college and why?

3. Why does Clare go inside the gas station, and what does Aidan do when he follows her?

4. Where have most of Aidan and Clare's friends already gone?

5. Where did Clare and Aidan first see one another?

6. Why does Aidan say he did not apply to Harvard, and how does his father respond?

7. Why does Aidan like to Clare's house rather than his own?

8. Why is Aidan's father upset with Aidan?

9. What souvenir does Aidan give Clare after they stop at the high school?

10. Where did Aidan's parents want him to go to college, and why were they disappointed when he was not accepted there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

All summer, Clare's parents have been telling her that college "is the first chapter of the rest of [her] life" (165) and she will meet lifelong friends. How does Clare feel when her parents tell her that college is a new beginning? How and why does what they say make her feel like everything she has done so far in her life is not important?

Essay Topic 2

Although Aidan has frequently told Clare he loves her, she has never said she loves him. Why is Clare reluctant to tell Aidan she loves him? Why does it take her so long to say those words?

Essay Topic 3

Aidan and Scotty get into a fight. What does the fight have to do with unfulfilled dreams?

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