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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 school does Donna attend in Chapter 11?

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

3. What is the name of Tara's neighbor who sees her fleeing from her friend in Chapter 1?

4. Who asks Tara whether she has ever stolen anything in Chapter 12?

5. What did Donna call Tara because she looked spongy and blond in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What leads Tara to study religion in Chapter 6? How is this perceived by her family?

4. How does Tara describe the summer between fifth and sixth grades in Chapter 7?

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

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

7. What is Tara's response to being kicked off the volleyball team in Chapter 3?

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

9. How are the relationships between Tara and her friends described in Chapter 7?

10. How does Tara describe her relationship with her mother in Chapter 2? How does she describe her friends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role that religious obsession plays in obsessive-compulsive disorder. What other symptoms are significant which are displayed by Tara in the narrative? Would you have diagnosed Tara as OCD based upon her behavior? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and analyze the character of Greta in the narrative. How old is Greta in relation to Tara? What is Greta's relationship with Tara like? How does Greta get along with her family? How does Greta prove her loyalty to Tara as a sister in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Tara's father's medical condition. What led to his heart attack, and how serious was his condition at the hospital? How does Tara's father's heart attack affect Tara's relationship with her mother? How is Greta affected by her father's hospitalization?

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