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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. What does Gran say Heather has decided to be when she visits Mia?

2. How old was Kerry Gifford when he died?

3. Where was Elizabeth accepted to study after high school?

4. In what way did Mia's father say that Gramps had exerted pressure on him to change his life?

5. Who is the cello player that Kim points out to Mia in the Nirvana song "Something in the Way"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Henry and Mia's father have a huge falling out when Teddy was born?

3. How would you compare Mia with her mother?

4. What does Gramps tell Mia in the ICU that feels like a blessing to her? Why does she feel this way?

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

6. Why did Mia once have an emotional fight with Adam about Kim?

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

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

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

10. Who is Mr. Dunlap and what is his role in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the passage and the illustrations of time in If I Stay. How does Mia describe the passage of time in the ICU? What does she relate it to? 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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