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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. How soon after graduation does the couple marry?

2. What seems evident to be developing between Jenny and Oliver?

3. What does Jenny think about Mrs. Barrett's announcement?

4. When is Jenny leaving for Paris?

5. How does Oliver feel about dinner with his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Oliver meet Jennifer and what does she say about him in the library?

2. What does Oliver find out after a concert Jenny has given?

3. Why does Oliver make certain Jenny has a program at the hockey game?

4. Who comes to Jenny's graduation from Radcliffe and what does Jenny not tell them and why?

5. How does Oliver drive to take Jenny to meet his parents and why does he drive that way?

6. What does Jenny tell Oliver about her father?

7. When and under what circumstances does Oliver go to the Radcliffe library?

8. Why is Oliver nervous about meeting Jenny's father?

9. Why does Oliver watch Jenny when introducing his parents to her?

10. Now that Oliver and Jenny have begun the sexual part of their relationship what is Oliver's roommate forced to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oliver seems to have grown some by this point as marked by his intuitive awareness that Phil would have been hurt if Oliver did not allow him to pay for the reception after their wedding.

1. What do you think might be some of the reasons Oliver is maturing? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think Oliver's maturity shown in the book is unrealistic in the short amount of time period the book covers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

After he and Jenny get in a fight and she leaves he goes to look for her. Oliver goes home and finds Jenny sitting on the top step in front of their apartment. Oliver attempts to apologize, but Jenny tells him he does not have to.

1. Do you think Jenny was right by telling him he didn't have to apologize? Why or why not?

2. Why do you think it is good for someone to forgive a wrong done them rather than to hold onto it?

3. What do you think would happen in the world if people forgave others immediately?

Essay Topic 3

The reader watches the two Olivers interact and has to wonder if this sense of competition is mostly a product of Oliver's imagination rather than a true competition that his father has initiated.

1. Do you think Oliver is imagining his father's motivations and feelings? Why or why not?

2. All people attribute feelings and thoughts to other people without knowing whether they are true. Explain a situation in which you, or someone you know, assumed a person thought one way and it was not true.

3. How would you feel if someone thought you believed something, or felt something that you didn't? How would you try to change their opinion?

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