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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. Who is the first to question where a negative phone call comes from?

2. What does the "garden in the sky" refer to?

3. What is the name of the boyfriend Cindy brings home for the holidays?

4. What does Cindy want to go to school for?

5. To whom does Cindy reveal that Bart took her after he beat up her boyfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Melodie leave?

2. What type of offensive sermon does Joel give in the chapel?

3. How does Melodie feel about and react to having twins?

4. How does Joel react to Toni and Bart's relationship?

5. Describe Toni and Bart's relationship.

6. In what way does Catherine encourage Bart?

7. What is Catherine's life goal?

8. What does Catherine think about Bart's eulogy?

9. Why doesn't anybody come to Bart's Christmas party?

10. What does the "Garden in the sky" refer to in Catherine's childhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Catherine's "garden in the sky" refer to? Why is it an important theme in the story? At the end of the story when Catherine is dead, what does it symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

How does V.C. Andrews use titles effectively to foreshadow events or set a tone? Use at least three specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

Will Bart ever be happy? What obstacles stand in his way?

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