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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. Which of the following does Freddy eat for breakfast at the diner after the Valentine’s Day dance?

2. Which of the following cafeteria foods does Buddy note enjoying?

3. Which of the following are the first words presented in the graphic novel?

4. Which of the following artists does Buddy note being played at the Valentine’s Day dance?

5. Which of the following does Freddy have on her phone’s home display?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Doodle order at the restaurant where Freddy works (55)?

2. What reason does Laura give for noting that Freddy will agree to go to a movie with her?

3. What boast does Dan make to Erv at the bowling alley?

4. What are the related circumstances of Freddy’s first kiss?

5. What reason does Freddy cite for Doodle’s resistance to cell phones?

6. What does Freddy note is the second-hardest part of going through Laura breaking up with her?

7. Why does one of Freddy’s classmates object to the description of Harvey Milk as “homosexual” (31)?

8. How does school administration contradict the DJ at the Valentine’s Day dance?

9. Freddy texts Laura after the Valentine’s Day dance. What is Laura’s response (20)?

10. What reason does Laura give for calling Freddy by her full given name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the story Doodle relates her father having read, regarding the Ohio man (133-35). What significance does it have to the graphic novel as a whole? How does that significance manifest?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the graphic novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the graphic novel, inanimate objects are ascribed speech, even to the point of conversing with one another. What effect do the comments have on Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, and how is the effect achieved?

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