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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. What does Martha do to Lucy at the beach?

2. What does the person in #118 say to Martha?

3. Martha finds Godbee in the kitchen in the middle of the night and thinks she looks like _____________________.

4. How does Martha feel about Vince's comment about Jimmy in #117?

5. Why does Vince say that he has not mentioned the video kiss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact does Martha's slip in the water have on her?

2. What is the symbolism of Martha's painting Olive's name in ocean water on the hot sidewalk?

3. Why is Lucy so upset after she is freed from the mound of sand?

4. What does Martha do when she sees Jimmy holding hands with a girl and walking towards her on the beach?

5. Why are Jimmy and Martha mad at a comment someone makes when they are holding hands?

6. What do Jimmy and Martha do when they spend the day together at the beach?

7. How does Martha decide to act after learning that Jimmy filmed their kiss?

8. What does Olive's journal statement about wanting to go to "a real ocean" foreshadow?

9. Why does Martha think of Olive as she thinks about the kissing video?

10. Why is Martha so conflicted when Dennis and Vince ask her to go with them to the Benton Place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Lucy. What is her role in the story? What was the author trying to accomplish by developing Lucy's character in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of struggle. Identify at least two instances about struggle in the book and then cite examples to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the overall setting for the story. Why does the author use the setting he does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

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