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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. Why does Emily invite Sam to a party?
(a) To help him make friends.
(b) To show him off.
(c) To embarrass her ex-boyfriend.
(d) To introduce him to friends.

2. What does the gas station attendant recognize?
(a) Oliver's truck.
(b) Oliver's name.
(c) Oliver's gas can.
(d) Oliver's voice.

3. Rebecca spies on Sam and Jane who are where?
(a) In a canoe talking.
(b) In the pond swimming.
(c) In a rowboat kissing.
(d) In a tent kissing.

4. What job does Jane have?
(a) She is a speech pathologist for the San Diego school system.
(b) She is a principal for the San Diego school system.
(c) She is a nurse for the San Diego school system.
(d) She is a teacher for the San Diego school system.

5. Why will Oliver not be at Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?
(a) He is being forced to work.
(b) He has committed to a whale watching expedition off the coast of South America.
(c) He does not want to be there.
(d) He will be in China.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the orchard suffered a parasite causing loss of half of the crop when Sam was fourteen, how did he comfort himself?

2. Why does Joley feel this way about sending Rebecca back to Oliver?

3. On July 15, 1990, Jane takes Rebecca to a YMCA to swim in what city?

4. Who does Rebecca meet at the diner?

5. What happens the same week as the neighbor's house fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jane feel about her father's death?

2. Where do Oliver and Jane long to be?

3. How do Sam and Jane finally become civil toward one another?

4. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

5. What does Oliver do, now that Rebecca and Jane have left?

6. What does Hadley reveal about Sam? How does the reader know that Hadley is attracted to Rebecca?

7. What happens after Jane and Rebecca speed past Ernie Barb?

8. How does Jane end up covered in manure?

9. What has become of Oliver and Jane's marriage?

10. How does Jane now act around Sam?

(see the answer keys)

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