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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 probability does Oliver face?

2. When does Oliver awaken in Mica's apartment?

3. Jane writes a letter to Joley bragging about doing what?

4. What does Sam tell Hadley to do?

5. What does Sam believe about Jane?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rebecca react to seeing the crash site?

2. What happens when Rebecca wakes up?

3. What does Oliver do at the Blue Diner?

4. What takes place when Jane and Rebecca visit the Shedd Aquarium?

5. What happens to Jane when her mother and father argue and her mother eventually leaves?

6. What happens when Oliver arrives at the Hansen's orchard?

7. What takes place in the last moments between Sam and Jane?

8. What happens at the John Hopkins medical museum?

9. How do Oliver's plans to find Jane and Rebecca change?

10. How do Sam's actions show he is interested in Jane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oliver's first love is studying whales.

Part 1) How do you know this is his first love? How does this affect his marriage and relationship with his daughter?

Part 2) How does his knowledge and love of whales make him overly confident? How does this also lead to an understanding of himself?

Part 3) How is this love of whales and the connection with water threaded through this story and in the lives of other characters?

Essay Topic 2

Rebecca hitchhikes to Sand Castle Lane and spends a night with Hadley on Mt. Deception.

Part 1) Why does she hitchhike here? Through what difficulties must she go to get to Sand Castle Lane? Why does she do this?

Part 2) What is the significance of the name Sand Castle Lane?

Part 3) The relationship between Hadley and Rebecca ends on Mt. Deception. What is the significance of this mountain's name? What connection does the name have with events in the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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