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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 Valerie and Daniel do in bed?

2. How can you tell if Moms is really worried?

3. Which item of Daniel's furniture does Valerie feel is waiting for her?

4. Where are Pops's side of the family?

5. What causes Carlton's disappearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chiquita tell Inda in the bathroom?

2. What is the state of Valerie and Brown's love lives?

3. How does this meeting between Chiquita and Bae-Bae go?

4. Why does Valerie meet with Walter?

5. What happens when Inda returns to the club?

6. What does Chiquita suggest Inda to do?

7. Why does Valerie decide to go to Canada?

8. What surprises Inda when she goes to Chiquita's room?

9. Why did Chiquita stop seeing Brown?

10. Why did Bae-Bae's neglect Chiquita?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the structure of the book:

How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story?

How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the differences between Valerie, Inda and Chiquita. How different are their lives and what choices may have affected this? What are their strengths and weaknesses as individuals? In what way are their relationships used to develop the themes of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Valerie's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the she is at the end.

1. What did Valerie hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Valerie's ideas about life?

3. How has Valerie's character changed by the end of the book?

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