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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 Avey's formal name?
(a) Ava.
(b) Avalon.
(c) Avatara.
(d) Avatare.

2. Which of the following are Avey's plans?
(a) Get a hotel.
(b) Fly home.
(c) All of these.
(d) Leave the ship.

3. Where does Avey finally find some peace and quiet on board the ship?
(a) Library.
(b) Billiards room.
(c) Lounge.
(d) Chapel.

4. How many jobs did Jay work?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

5. How old was Sis when she tried to get her parents to stop fighting?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the island where all the native people are going?

2. Where is Avey's current home?

3. Jay and Avey look forward to living in _________________ one day.

4. A man tells Avey that from the back she looks like a woman named _________.

5. What would Jay and Avey eat after they pretended they had a night on the town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jay's response to Avey's hysterics?

2. How does Avey try to sort out the mess she seems to be in at the harbor?

3. What did Avey realize about Jay on the night of the big fight?

4. What is the significance of the peach parfait for Avey?

5. What is the premise of this novel?

6. Whose transformation begins in Chapter 3 after Avey and Jay's big fight?

7. What complications emerge in Avey's dream when she, as an adult, resists Great Aunt Cuney's insistence to follow her?

8. Why did Avey become obsessed with the idea that Jay was being unfaithful to her?

9. What happened when Avey finally let loose with her suspicions of Jay?

10. Why does Avey feel guilty about reminiscing about the days spent at the Halsey Street apartment?

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