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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. In Chapter 10, what shadow do the houses that Julie sees sit in?

2. In Chapter 1, what does Julie say that her mother used to nag her about spending too much time doing?

3. In Chapter 1, where has Julie been accepted to attend college?

4. In Chapter 3, what type of flowers does Julie tell Ray that she sent to the funeral?

5. In Chapter 9, where do Ray and Julie go after school to talk?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, how does Ray vote about going back to help the boy on the bicycle and why?

2. In Chapter 9, who does Julie want to see and why?

3. In Chapter 2, how is Helen doing compared to her older sister, Elsa?

4. At the end of Chapter 2, what does Barry observe when he leaves Helen's apartment complex?

5. At the end of Chapter 6, what happens to Barry?

6. In Chapter 5, how did the accident happen?

7. In Chapter 10, why does Ray think that Megan might not be living alone?

8. In Chapter 7, who comes and takes Helen to the hospital to see Barry?

9. In Chapter 4, what does Helen find on her apartment door when she returns?

10. In Chapter 3, how does Julie feel when she sees Bud waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. What is the overall mood in the novel? If the mood in the story was a color, what color would that be?

Essay Topic 2

Point of view determines what readers know about characters and events. How does the viewpoint in the novel change in chapters? Even though the viewpoint in the novel changes does the type of point of view that the author uses change? How does using multiple viewpoints affect what readers know about characters and events?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is the category that a story falls under, like historical fiction, realistic fiction, autobiography, or biography. What is the genre of the novel? Could the novel fit under several different genres? If so, what would those genres be?

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