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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. Who is Carmen?
(a) Alex's sister.
(b) Brittany's best friend.
(c) Alex's ex-girlfriend.
(d) Shelley's tutor.

2. What does Brittany do after the first day of school?
(a) Gets a haircut.
(b) Goes to the library.
(c) Works out at the gym.
(d) Goes to pom pom practice.

3. Why does Alex take a boy's car?
(a) He was too young to drive.
(b) The boy can't pay a debt.
(c) Alex needs to get to school.
(d) Alex's mother needs a way to get to work.

4. Who confronts Brittany in front of the school after she parks her car?
(a) Evie.
(b) Chad.
(c) Alex.
(d) Maddie.

5. Brittany tricks Alex by ______________________.
(a) kissing his ear lobe.
(b) leaving class early.
(c) only kissing his hand.
(d) giving him a fake phone number.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Colin hope to get an internship at the end of the year?

2. What personal information does Brittany reveal to Alex?

3. Why does Brittany escort Alex to the school nurse's office?

4. Who tells Brittany that she should not worry about Carmen?

5. Why did Alex and Carmen break up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What halts a confrontation between Brittany and Carmen?

2. Why is Alex's bet with his friends an especially challenging one?

3. How does Alex help take care of his widowed mother and two younger brothers?

4. What prevents a possible ugly situation when Brittany, who is drunk, wanders into the area of the beach where Alex and his Bloods are hanging out?

5. Why does Alex join a gang and sacrifice any chances of going to college?

6. In what way do Brittany and Alex have much in common?

7. What is the nature of the initial hostility between Alex and Brittany?

8. What bet does Alex make with his friends regarding Brittany?

9. What does Alex do as a result of Brittany's mother's dismissive behavior toward him?

10. Why does the sight of his brother near the soccer field anger Alex?

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