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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 the open mic night hosted?

2. Who talks to Jade about speaking up about how she feels about Woman to Woman?

3. What does Maxine say about Jade when she is introducing her to her own family?

4. In Chapter 32, how does Jade describe Maxine's apartment?

5. Where does Chapter 64 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Once at the fundraiser, how does Jade feel?

2. What do Maxine and Jade talk about in Chapter 52?

3. What is Jade's reaction to seeing Maxine's family and their house, which overlooks the city of Portland?

4. When Sam and Jade talk about the trip to Costa Rica, what does Jade say to Sam that she will never understand?

5. What news does E.J share with Jade in Chapter 47?

6. In Chapter 52, what does Maxine say the Woman to Woman events cannot be centered around?

7. In Chapter 76, what version of the story about York does Jade say she and many others believe?

8. What is the topic of Lee Lee's poem for open mic night?

9. In Chapter 57, how does Jade react when she realizes that Sam is not on the bus after returning from Costa Rica?

10. What are some of the ways Jade knows she and Sam are no longer friends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the novel progresses, Jade's relationships with other female characters in the novel change and grow. Select one relationship Jade has with another woman and explain its significance in relation to one of the novel's themes of friendship, identity, power, or wholeness.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing and then analyzing Ms. Butler's relationship to her own daughter throughout the novel. What does she want for her daughter and is it the same thing that Jade wants? How does she impact Jade's life?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay examining the end of the novel. How does Jade become at peace with herself? Does she find wholeness in a discovered sense of self, and if so, how?

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