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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 is the name of Tom's twin?

2. What does Dru do after her mother comes home in Chapter 13?

3. Where do Dru and Mike go for a walk from the party?

4. Why does Elisa follow Scooter when she does not want to go?

5. What does Mike say to Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the party after Scooter and Elisa's jump, what is there and who does Diane pay attention to? Where does Mike and Dru sit?

2. Where does Dru go running with her dog, who does she see and what does she hope about Elisa?

3. What does Dru's mother say to Dru after they get home from dinner at Mike's house?

4. Why does Dru get angry with her mother, what does she say and how does her mother respond?

5. How does Elisa feel about going up to the presentation, what does Dru tell her and what does she continue to see?

6. What happens when and right after the twins jump?

7. How many stitches does Tom receive, what does Grant tell the doctor and why did Grant lie to the doctor? How does Diane react to Tom's jump?

8. Who is Claire, what does Dru discuss with her and what does she ask Dru? What is Dru's response?

9. Where does everyone go from the celebration and what does Dru promise Elisa?

10. Who picks Dru up at Elisa's and how does she get ready to go to the party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dru is a bit guilty of catering to her boyfriend, just like Elisa. Mike is not controlling, but she will do certain things for him. She goes to the Spindrift, though she does not feel like it. She wears her hair the way he likes it. She looks longingly at her new clothes for Northwestern, a place that represents distance from Mike. In a subliminal way, Mike gets in her head. And she submits to what he wants.

1. Do you think it is positive or negative behavior to do certain things for another person even if you don't necessarily want to do them yourself? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think there is a part of Dru who believes she is giving up too much of herself to date Mike? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think the female in a relationship tends to give up more than the male? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Elisa represents the battered woman. She has battered woman syndrome in an emotional sense. She does not see how Scooter really treats her and accepts the emotional abuse as part of her life. Even when Dru points out his controlling number counting, Elisa defends him. She chooses to be emotionally abused and Dru remembers that other people see this too, as she remembers Tom's comment.

1. With research, discuss why Elisa displays the symptoms of an emotionally battered woman. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think Scooter's behavior towards Elisa is controlling or do you think it is typical teenage male behavior? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss what you would say to a good friend who was in a relationship where their significant other abused them emotionally or degraded them as a person. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and sometimes it is the other way around. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think "Jumping the Nail" is? Explain your response.

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