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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 does Jane remember about the day before her wedding?

2. Why does Oliver believe that he has to intercept Jane and Rebecca before they reach Joley?

3. What does Jane find when they reach Jake's?

4. What can Jane's snobbishness not accept?

5. When Tall Neck sells a convertible MG to Jane, of what is he unaware?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rebecca get to Hadley's mother's home?

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

3. Why do Sam, Hadley, and Joley tell stupid jokes?

4. Why does Sam have surgery as a child?

5. Why does Oliver think he has to intercept Jane and Rebecca before they reach Joley?

6. Why does Joley help Jane?

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

8. What happens when Rebecca arrives at the Spregg home?

9. What does Joley write in his letter to Jane at Fishtrap, Montana?

10. Describe the story about the neighbor's house fire.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joley sees Sam and Jane as soul mates.

Part 1) Describe the relationship between Sam and Jane. Why does Joley believe they are soul mates?

Part 2) What does this belief reveal about Joley and his idea of love? How does this compare to others' beliefs about love?

Part 3) Do you believe that Sam and Jane are soul mates? Why or why not? Will they end up together? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Both Sam and Jane experience violence in their pasts.

Part 1) Describe the violence from which they suffer. How have they been affected by this violence?

Part 2) How does this suffering affect their relationships with others? How does it affect how they feel about themselves?

Part 3) How does this history of violence, at first, push them away from each other and then bring them together? Why does this happen?

Essay Topic 3

Hadley dies.

Part 1) How does Hadley die? What events lead up to his death? How could his death have been prevented?

Part 2) What does his death represent? How does his death affect the other characters in the story? Why are they affected this way?

Part 3) His death is learned early in the book. Other chapters after this explain the events leading up to his death. How does knowing he will die affect your feelings when reading about the events leading up to his death?

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