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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself?
(a) Paradism.
(b) Extrapole.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Cosmos.

2. Who gets sick of Tara's counting cracks and causes a rift between the two in Chapter 9?
(a) Anna.
(b) Keesha.
(c) Kristin.
(d) Greta.

3. What school friend of Tara's is described as black and dramatic in personality?
(a) Keesha.
(b) Anna.
(c) Kristin.
(d) Wendy.

4. What name does Keesha call Tara in Chapter 5?
(a) Taranasaurus.
(b) Tantrum Tara.
(c) Tarantula.
(d) Count Taracula.

5. What is Tara's last name in the novel?
(a) Sullivan.
(b) DeLuca.
(c) Krueger.
(d) Jacobson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tara go to speak to after leaving the store in Chapter 12?

2. What refers to the act of holding back, controlling, or checking?

3. In Christianity, what is for the majority the rite of admission into the Christian Church generally and also membership of a particular church tradition?

4. Tara tells her parents that the teacher told the class to call the police if they saw their parents doing what in Chapter 3?

5. Where does Tara's mother get a job in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is tragic about the image that Tara projects about herself versus the reality in Chapter 3?

2. How is Donna described in Chapter 11?

3. What does Tara overhear her parents saying about her in Chapter 6? How does Tara feel about the situation?

4. How does Chapter 11 serve the plot of the narrative? How do the events in this chapter relate to those in Chapter 10?

5. How has Tara's erratic behavior evolved at the beginning of Chapter 4? What does Tara do about her condition?

6. What leads up to Tara's stealing in Chapter 12? What does she do after stealing?

7. How does Tara feel about her inward thoughts in Chapter 5?

8. How does Tara describe the phrase that began her problems in Chapter 1?

9. What draws Tara to Donna as a person in Chapter 11?

10. How does Tara deal with her parents' absence while they are at work in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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