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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 do Andi and her father argue about before Andi walks out of the apartment?

2. What does Andi find in the items she has requested from the library?

3. Why does the headmistress pull Andi aside at school?

4. What does Virgil give Andi?

5. What type of music does Virgil perform?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Alexandrine Paradis?

2. Why does G give Andi the guitar she finds in his house?

3. Who is Virgil and what is his relationship with Andi?

4. What is Andi's senior thesis?

5. Why does Andi want to return to New York so badly?

6. Why do fireworks make Louis-Charles both happy and sad?

7. What is foreshadowed in the conversation between Louis-Charles and Alex as they discuss the fireworks?

8. Who are G and Lili?

9. What happens between Andi and Nick at Nick's party?

10. Why does Andi want to visit the catacombs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Andi emails her thesis outline to her father she waits for him to come home. Before she can discuss her paper with him, she has a chance to overhear him on the phone discussing herself and Truman. What does Andi hear that makes her feel sympathy toward her father? How does he blame himself for her depression? Who does he blame for the failure of his marriage? Who does he blame for Truman's death? Why do you think he is unwilling to accept Andi's attempt to comfort him?

Essay Topic 2

Andi is failing her senior year and will not graduate unless she turns in a successful senior thesis. Andi decides to write about the French composer Malherbeau and plans to research him while she is in Paris.

1) How does Andi's love of music influence her thesis?

2) How does Andi feel Malherbeau has influenced musicians who came after him?

3) Where are some of the places Andi visits in order to collect research?

4) What does she ultimately discover about the musician?

Essay Topic 3

Andi receives a Revolution era guitar from G. She discovers a hidden compartment inside the case that contains a diary and mysterious newspaper clippings. What is interesting about the way Andi found the diary? Who's diary is it? What does the diary describe? When was the diary written? What predictions can be made about the diary and its contents?

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