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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. In Chapter Nine, why are Abby and Nick fighting?

2. In Chapter Fourteen, what does Abby tell Leah to make or bring for their roadtrip?

3. In Chapter One, what play is the school putting on?

4. In Chapter Eleven, what does Leah say to the road trip?

5. In Chapter Thirteen what dress does Leah like the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Four, how does Leah explain her friendship with Anna and Morgan? How are they with one another?

2. In Chapter Four, what does Leah sense about Garret? How does she feel about this?

3. In Chapter Three, how does Leah feel hanging out with Bram? What does she show him?

4. In Chapter Two, how does Leah feel about Abby? What happens with Abby at the end of Chapter Two?

5. In Chapter Seven, how does Leah feel seeing her mom and Wells? What does she do after brunch?

6. In Chapter Thirteen, what does Leah's mom ask her when she gets upset? What does she wants Leah to do?

7. In Chapter Thirteen, what does Garrett apologize for? How does Leah feel?

8. In Chapter Seven, how does Leah feel towards Wells? Why does she decide at the brunch?

9. In Chapter Five, why is Morgan not at school? Where did she not get in?

10. In Chapter Nine, where does Leah go with Abby? What does Abby insinuate at the end of the chapter that occupies Leah's mind?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Abby tells Leah that she is talented, and that Abby has been afraid of Leah, and worried of how she seems to her. Discuss Leah's perception of self, versus outside of her. Which one do you think is more accurate? What are Leah's blind spots that she does not see about herself, and why does she not see them? What is the novel saying about what we see in ourselves, versus what we see in others?

Essay Topic 2

Abby comes out to Leah as "lowkey bi" which makes Leah upset (260). Why is it so important to Leah that Abby come out as full bisexual? How are lesbian relationships represented in the novel as being complicated by outside perception and fetisization, such as the male gaze, and ideas of "just experimenting"? How is Leah's anger at Abby related to all these complicated levels of perception of lesbian and bisexual relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Abby finally comes out to Leah partway through the novel, and Leah finally comes out to Simon and her friends at the end. What has stopped these characters from coming out before? Is sexuality as straightforward as straight, gay, or bi? What causes confusion? Discuss their journey, and use this for an argument of how coming out is a high personal and individual journey. How does the novel show the process of coming into ones sexuality, and embracing it as an individual and complicated process?

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