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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 Twenty Two, who does Simon tell first about Haverford?

2. In Chapter Twenty Six, what do Simon, Leah, and Nick play?

3. In Chapter Nineteen, what does Leah find is Abby's quirk?

4. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Leah learn Abby has in her family?

5. In Chapter Twenty Two, who does Leah meet at the Waffle House?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Nineteen, what does Leah do at the college party? What does Leah get invited to do?

2. In Chapter Fifteen, where does Leah go? Why is the gathering canceled?

3. In Chapter Twenty, what does Leah do based on Abby's dare? What does Abby say that offends Leah?

4. In Chapter Twenty Three, what does Leah look at to distract herself? What does she do on her Tumblr account?

5. In Chapter Twenty Two, who does Leah go to meet? What does Nick say?

6. In Chapter Twenty One, who does Leah go to meet at Waffle House? Who does she see instead?

7. In Chapter Seventeen, where do Abby and Leah go to stay? Where are they invited?

8. In Chapter Twenty Three, what does Simon tell Leah about Abby and Nick? What does Leah find ironic about this?

9. In Chapter Twenty Five, what does Simon compliment Leah on? What does Leah want to tell Simon but stops?

10. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Abby ask Leah about their friendship? What does Leah flash back to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Abby and Nick's breakup resonates throughout the novel, making room for new possibilities of romance, while both Abby and Nick, as well as their friends, cope with the fallout. How does this breakup impact different characters? Choose at least four characters to write about their feelings about the breakup. Use this to discuss, how does a breakup have to do with more than just the characters in a relationship? And how do the way characters feel or think show a complex picture of relationships and breakups, and why people stay in relationships? Consider also how appearance factors into these choices.

Essay Topic 2

When Nick and Abby break up, Simon worries about having a long distance relationship for NYU with Bram. How does this worry and fear show how friend groups model what is possible? How is Simon finally able to free himself of his fear to embrace his truth? Choose one other character in addition to Simon to see how they act based on what they see in others, and how they finally decide to act and think for themselves.

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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