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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 is Amber’s last name in the novel?

2. What does Sia tell Duke in Chapter 19?

3. Where do Carol and Sia find refuge to sleep after the attack by the teenage boys in Chapter 6?

4. Where does Carol take Sia to clean up in Chapter 5?

5. What does Carol say she did as a job when she was married and before she became homeless in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What exchange takes place between Sia and Duke in Chapter 10? How does Sia feel about Duke?

2. What exchange takes place between Sia and Beatriz when Sia arrives home from school in Chapter 13?

3. How is Sia’s mother described when Sia first observes her in Chapter 13?

4. Who comes up to Sia to offer her “blankets” in Chapter 3? How is this character described?

5. What does Carol teach Sia in Chapter 5? What does Carol tell Sia about finding work?

6. Who greets Sia when she awakens in the hospital in Chapter 7? What does Sia relate to this character?

7. What encounter takes place when Sia and Carol are cleaning up in the bathroom in Chapter 5?

8. Whom does Sia encounter at the bakery in Chapter 14? What does Sia order there?

9. What danger does Sia encounter in Chapter 15? Who appears to intervene on Sia’s account?

10. What danger does Sia encounter near the food trucks in Chapter 2? How does Sia respond to the situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of friendship in the novel. In what ways is Carol the only “true friend” that Sia has at this point in the novel? How does Carol differ from Sia’s school friends and her family? What does friendship mean to Sia?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the setting of Beverly Hills High in the novel. How many students attend this school? How are the different cliques described? Do you think this school and the dynamics within it are similar to your own school setting? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the character of Kyle Barrow in the novel. Why does Kyle appear to dislike Sia? Why does Kyle follow Sia to the bridge? How does Kyle differ from Sia’s friends and her boyfriend?

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