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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. Where is Leslie driving at the beginning of Chapter 22?

2. What does Leslie say about Ronnie's personality when he was young?

3. What direction do Leslie and Richard find themselves flying in when they are in the fighter plane with the alternate Leslie?

4. What is the name of Richard's alternate self in Chapter 12?

5. What does Richard dislike about Dave?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Richard's alternate self make an important change in his life after his wife leaves him?

2. What does Pye tell Leslie and Richard is the reason she left them to fly alone?

3. Who is Marshara?

4. Who does Leslie encounter in the afterlife?

5. Describe Dave and Lorraine's physical appearance.

6. How do Richard and Leslie reunite?

7. What does Ronnie tell Leslie in Yosemite?

8. What is special about the restaurant that Leslie and Richard eat in after they arrive in Santa Monica?

9. Describe Linda's competitive nature.

10. What promise does Leslie ask Richard to make if she dies first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of relationship do Leslie and Richard have at the beginning of the novel? How does it deepen and strengthen as they share a spacetime journey? In what way does their relationship change after they are reunited?

Essay Topic 2

How does Dave change from feeling bitter about his life to seeing possibilities in the months he has left? How does Lorraine help him see life in new way? In what ways does Dave's experience influence Richard and Leslie to live differently when they return home?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of Pye's character in this novel. What role does she play and what do Richard and Leslie think of her? How do they feel about flying without her?

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