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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When walking on the beach during his second date with Theresa, what does Garrett ask her about?
(a) Missing David.
(b) Seeing anyone.
(c) Missing Kevin.
(d) Wanting to date him.

2. What excited Theresa about finding the message in the bottle?
(a) She and her son did something similar when he was a child.
(b) She did something similar as a child.
(c) She had never seen a message in a bottle before.
(d) Her and her husband did something similar during their marriage.

3. What in the messages leads Theresa and Deanna to discover Garrett's whereabouts?
(a) Learning the name of a dive shop and calling dive shops in the Wilmington area.
(b) Learning the name of the address by looking at companies that make the bottle the message was in.
(c) Learning the name of his wife and looking up obituaries.
(d) Learning the name of Garrett and going to Wilmington.

4. How would the message act as a way of encouragement according to Deanna?
(a) It would encourage men to love women in the way in which they deserve.
(b) It would encourage women who struggle when trying to find a good man who could love them the way in which they deserve.
(c) It would encourage women to find the writer of the message.
(d) It would encourage men to act as a good man when finding the right woman.

5. Who gives Theresa a clue about where to find Garrett in Wilmington?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A store employee.
(c) A barista.
(d) A newspaper boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon finding a message similar to the one she found in the bottle, what does Theresa fantasize about?

2. What is the nature of the relationship between Theresa and Deanna?

3. What does Deanna promise if they publish the message?

4. What does Theresa find inside of the item she finds when stopping to tie her shoe?

5. What does Deanna insist about Theresa's first trip to Wilmington?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Jeb gave Garrett concerning his long grieving?

2. How does Theresa identify Garrett?

3. How does Theresa find out about the third message?

4. What is Theresa's greatest fear concerning Kevin and David's relationship?

5. Where does the letter come from and who determines the location from which it was sent?

6. Why does Theresa want to write an introduction to the message?

7. Do you think removing information to identify who wrote the letter makes the moral ambiguity disappear?

8. What is Theresa's plan when she arrives in Wilmington?

9. Who does Theresa go to after finding the third message and why?

10. Why does Deanna try to convince Theresa to find Garrett?

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