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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 is the name of the priest Tara goes to for confession in the novel?
(a) Father O'Malley.
(b) Father Matthews.
(c) Father DeLuca.
(d) Father Cartwright.

2. What is Donna's last name?
(a) DeLuca.
(b) Jacobson.
(c) O'Malley.
(d) Leopardi.

3. What refers to behavior in which a person acts in a certain way not because they want to, but because they feel they have to do so?
(a) Psychosis.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Depressive behavior.
(d) Compulsive behavior.

4. When Tara and her friends share their fears in Chapter 3, Tara says that she is afraid of what?
(a) Clowns.
(b) Her own thoughts.
(c) Dracula.
(d) Freddy Kreuger.

5. What is Tara's least favorite class in Chapter 3?
(a) English.
(b) Science.
(c) Math.
(d) Gym.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school does Donna attend in Chapter 11?

2. In Chapter 2, Tara awakes from a nightmare in which what is coming through her neighborhood?

3. When Tara and her friends share their fears in Chapter 3, Anna says that she is afraid of whom?

4. The captain of the volleyball team screams at Tara for what in Chapter 3?

5. Tara says that she spent a lot of time with her mother until when, in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Tara describe her relationship to religion in Chapter 2?

4. How does Tara defend her friendship with Donna to Keesha in Chapter 12?

5. What does Tara do after feeling humiliated in front of her schoolmates in Chapter 1? How does she feel?

6. How is Donna described in Chapter 11?

7. Discuss the emotion in Chapter 9 between Tara and Keesha. How does Tara react to pushing her friend?

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

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

10. How is the character of Greta depicted in Chapter 7?

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