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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 does Tara do during the play she performs in in Chapter 13?
(a) Starts counting the lights.
(b) Runs onstage screaming.
(c) Begins praying.
(d) Forgets her lines.

2. Tara has a small part in a play for what in Chapter 13?
(a) Valentine's Day.
(b) Hannukah.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

3. In Chapter 17, when Tara does her doorknob thing in front of her father, he gets angry when she won't stop what?
(a) Counting.
(b) Tapping her foot.
(c) Singing.
(d) Talking.

4. What does Tara's mother threaten to do due to Tara's behavior in Chapter 15?
(a) Have her committed.
(b) Move to Alaska.
(c) Have another baby.
(d) Divorce Tara's father.

5. Who does Tara ask to walk home with her after class in Chapter 21?
(a) Chuck and Donna.
(b) Keesha and Anna.
(c) Anna and Donna.
(d) Chuck and Greta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tara ask Donna which at first offends Donna in Chapter 14?

2. How many times does Greta say she's been suspended for protecting Tara in Chapter 14?

3. Who has become pregnant in Chapter 22?

4. Who has the fortune, "Good things are coming to you soon" in Chapter 16?

5. In Chapter 14, Donna and Tara spend Christmas day doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new behavior has Tara adopted in the beginning of Chapter 15?

2. What treatment does Dr. Leopardi suggest in Chapter 19? How difficult does she tell Tara it will be?

3. How has Tara evolved as a character from the beginning of the novel to Chapter 22?

4. How does Tara describe her analysis of her dream from the beginning of the novel in Chapter 23?

5. How does Tara's treatment with Susan Leopardi begin in Chapter 20?

6. How does Tara describe her relationship with Sam in Chapter 23? How has Tara grown by the novel's end?

7. What conflict takes place between Tara and her father in Chapter 17?

8. What does Sam bring Tara in Chapter 22? Why?

9. What is the purpose of the book's Afterword? Who is it written by and what does it contain?

10. How does Christmas Day end for Tara in Chapter 14?

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