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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 does Mia say she has been hanging out in an empty hospital room to be away from her family at 7:13 p.m.?

2. What instrument did Elizabeth play at the summer music camp Mia attended?

3. During what month does the narraitve of If I Stay take place?

4. What did Mia and Adam encounter in Seattle at the train station that made him cry?

5. Who was Mia's trombonist friend at conservatory camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Mia go to search for Teddy at 10:40 p.m.? Why?

2. How is Great-Aunt Glo's funeral described?

3. How old was Mia when she decided to quit playing cello? Why did she decide to quit?

4. What is the significance of "Waiting for Vengeance"?

5. How would you compare Mia with her mother?

6. How did Kim respond to the fight between Mia and Adam regarding her?

7. Why does Adam's plan to see Mia fail?

8. Who convinced Mia to not give up playing cello? How?

9. Why does Brooke Vega come to the hospital?

10. How is Adam's plot involving costumes from the supply closet met by Kim and by Mia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrative point of view that is employed in If I Stay. Why is this narrative point of view warranted? How would the novel change if related from a different narrative perspective? In what ways does this narrative point of view connect to the story's plot?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Mia's experience on Halloween in her junior year of high school. What did Mia dress as? What did Adam dress as? How are their costumes symbolic? What was monumental for Mia about this occasion?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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