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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 Diane proclaim Scooter and Elisa?

2. What did Mike ask Dru when he first started liking her?

3. What does Diane do when she comes up to Mike and Dru?

4. What does Dru whisper to her dog?

5. What kind of feeling does Dru have when she and Mike are walking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will Mrs. Moriarty be doing in the fall, and how do the two families feel about the California University system? How does Dru's dad feel about his children and college?

2. Where has Dru and her family been invited, how does her mother react to the invitation and how does Dru feel about it?

3. What does Mike and Dru talk about concerning Tom's stitches and jumping?

4. 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?

5. What does Mike say to Elisa about his feelings towards her?

6. What does Elisa notice when Scooter leaves to get a drink, what does she tell Dru and what is Dru's response?

7. What does Mike ask Dru out on the terrace, and what is her response?

8. 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?

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

10. How does Mike feel about the invitation to Dru's family and what does he say about telling an adult about the jumping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dru discusses the idea of feeling invisible. She feels this way until Mike and she start dating. This represents the universal teenage feeling of being invisible. It is a theme often seen in books about adolescence. For Dru, it is a real feeling and her encounter with Diane only exacerbates the feeling to a deeper level.

1. Discuss a time you or someone you know felt invisible. How did it compare to Dru's feelings? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss, in depth, why Dru's meeting with Diane might have made her feel more invisible or insecure. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Dating MIke is an external event which has made Dru feel, and possibly be, more acceptable to others in her school. Discuss some of the internal values Dru could strengthen within herself which could produce the same effect. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The boot symbolizes an omen. It is shredded and floats atop the water eerily. It is black, the color of mourning or death, showing that something ominous had occurred when Elisa was in the water. Even Elisa's foot is red and blotchy. Elisa cannot talk. All of this foreshadows that Elisa lost a part of herself underwater, or in other words, experienced a death of her true self.

1. What is an omen? Do you think it is the same as foreshadow? Discuss what you thought when you read of the boot and what significance you thought it might have. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss the symbolism of the boot in Elisa's life and, in some small degree, in all the teenagers who have conjugated at the Nail. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think Elisa lost a part of her true self underwater or do you think she has been losing that since she started to date Scooter? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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