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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. What is Sharon's roommate's name?
(a) Jenny
(b) Joyce.
(c) Jannie.
(d) Jill.

2. What ails John's brother, Lonnie?
(a) He is very depressed.
(b) He is disabled.
(c) He is autistic.
(d) He is mean.

3. Where does John suggest they go after swimming?
(a) Out to dinner.
(b) Back home to New Orleans.
(c) They go to his mother's fishing camp.
(d) To a movie.

4. Why does Sharon hurry from the car?
(a) Because she needs to meet her boyfreind.
(b) Her roommate is spying on her.
(c) She feels guilty about meeting John's family.
(d) She is playing hard to get.

5. What do John's siblings spend the rest of the afternoon doing?
(a) hiiking.
(b) swiming.
(c) water skiing.
(d) playing baseball.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John like Mrs. Schexnaydre?

2. Why isn't John passionate about the fact that someone saved his life?

3. What does Aunt Emily want for John?

4. What are some of Sharon's job duties?

5. What does the reader think about Kate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John feel about Walter, Kate's fiance?

2. Who has Kate started seeing to help with her depression?

3. What occurs on the ride to the Gulf Coast?

4. Who does John remind his mother of?

5. What does John do in order to escape from his life?

6. What is very apparent about John and Aunt Emily's relationship?

7. What does Sharon try to establish about the trip?

8. Who is John excited to see and why?

9. Who does John run into after lunch with his aunt?

10. The novel opens with John receiving some bad news. What is it?

(see the answer keys)

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