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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. How does Mia describe the style of her mother's wedding dress?

2. What vehicle hits Mia's family's car in the accident?

3. What is the name of the band that Adam is in?

4. What does Mia say the smell of pipe tobacco reminds her of?

5. How old was Mia when Kim sent her a note in class calling her a bitch?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mia compare the casino to the ICU?

2. Where is Mia's body taken after the car accident? Why?

3. How is Mia's character introduced by the author in the opening of the novel? What does the reader learn about Mia in "7:09 a.m."?

4. How does Mia describe the first weeks when she and Adam became an item?

5. How does Mia describe her first date with Adam?

6. How does Mia's consciousness transition following the car accident?

7. Who does Mia describe in the waiting room at "4:39 p.m."?

8. How does Mia describe Adam's first visit to meet her parents?

9. What did Mia and Adam dress up as for Halloween in Mia's junior year? Where did they go?

10. How does Mia describe the setting of the ICU?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the members of Mia's family that arrive to visit her at the hospital after the accident. Who arrives and from where? How does Mia feel about each of these characters? Who comforts her the most? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What are the circumstances that enable the car accident that Mia is injured by? Why is Mia's family driving on the day of the accident? Where are they going? With whom do they collide? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the plot structure of If I Stay. Where in the narrative does the exposition transition into the rising action? Where does the climax occur? What is revealed in the novel's falling action and denouement?

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