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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 diagnosis does the family internist give for Tara's condition in Chapter 6?

2. What classmates see Tara get reprimanded by her neighbor in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 10, Tara says of her mother, "I wanted to run to her and stroke her hair and tell her it was only" what?

4. What does Tara do when her mother curses, causing Tara's mother anger in Chapter 10?

5. Tara's mother tells Tara that she did what when she was young in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tara describe her best friends in Chapter 3? What grade is Tara in at this point?

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

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

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

5. What exchange does Tara describe with Mrs. Scott in Chapter 1? What causes Tara's humiliation?

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

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

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

9. What causes unexpected trauma in Tara's life in Chapter 10?

10. How does Tara feel after the incident at the carnival in Chapter 10? What new fear has arisen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of fear and Tara's fears in the narrative. What has led to Tara's fear of losing her parents? How is Tara's condition affected when her father is hospitalized? How does the isolation from her friends affect Tara? What does Tara claim her greatest fear is in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Define and identify dramatic irony and the tragic hero in narrative literature. How many different types of irony are there, and why does dramatic irony fit the situation in Chapter 3? Why is Tara's character tragic? What is ironic about her situation with her friends and family?

Essay Topic 3

Define theme in narrative literature, and analyze the theme of isolation in the novel. How does Tara's character exhibit isolation? How has Tara become more isolated than ever before in Chapter 9? Is Tara's isolation self-inflicted? Why or why not?

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