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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 Five, what does Leah feel like she cannot tell Simon?

2. In Chapter Twenty, what does Abby tell Leah?

3. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Leah do to distract herself?

4. In Chapter Twenty Eight, how does Abby come out?

5. In Chapter Twenty Three, what does Nick say about prom?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Fifteen, what happens between Nick and Abby? What does Simon ask Leah?

2. In Chapter Twenty Four, what does Abby ask Leah? What does she say it is about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Nick ask Leah about Abby? Why does Leah agree?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Leah thinks that Abby is perfect in the novel, but actually she has a layer of imperfection and confusion beneath. Leah on the other hand, may not seem perfect on the outside, but is obsessed with perfection beneath, and stops when anything becomes imperfect. How do these two characters, as sides of imperfection and perfectionism, have more in common than one may think at first? How is their perfectionism or imperfectionism different? How does their romance balance the two of them between one another?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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