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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 Seven, how does Garrett act towards Leah?

2. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Leah insist on at the apartment she and Abby are staying at?

3. In Chapter Seventeen, what does Abby say their college tour is?

4. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Abby tell Leah?

5. In Chapter Twenty Three, how are Abby and Nick going to prom?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seventeen, what does Abby suggest to Leah about living? What does Leah think?

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

3. In Chapter Sixteen, how does Abby say she feels about the breakup? Why does she feel this way?

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

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

6. In Chapter Twenty Six, what does Nick ask Leah about Garrett? What does Leah realize about Garrett?

7. In Chapter Twenty Six, why does Nick have Leah and Simon over? How does Nick seem?

8. In Chapter Twenty One, what is Anna trying to get Morgan and Leah do? What does Leah say instead?

9. In Chapter Twenty, what does Abby say about liking Leah? How does she say she feels?

10. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Abby reveal to Leah? Why does this make Leah upset?

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

Morgan makes a racist comment about Abby, and Leah calls her out on it to the detriment of their friendship for some time. Look at this situation from two angles. First, how does Morgan's response and defensiveness show an ally's reaction gone wrong? How does forgiveness and reconciliation take place after these kinds of racist comments for the characters involved? And how does the handling and response to the situation on many levels show ways, good or bad, that these kinds of comments can be dealt with? Which characters do you think acted right in this situation, and how do you think they could have improved?

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of the novel, Leah is nervous about the ending of high school, and feels like she can not cope. By the end, she tells Simon she misses him already (305). How does her response to Simon in the end show a change of heart? How does Leah's decision have to do with what has happened in the novel? What has changed her for the better and made it possible for her to accept endings, and what is the novel showing by this about what makes us resilient for change?

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