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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 Lucas get for Zoe from the store?

2. What is Lucas trying to find out in Chapter 4?

3. According to Zoe, why will people in the town not forgive her?

4. When Lucas asks Zoe for advice about "a friend," who does she think he means at first?

5. What do Lucas and Libby argue about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lucas and Connor go to the park?

2. What happens to Lucas on his first walk in the woods?

3. What ends the relationship between Lucas and Libby?

4. What does Mrs. Barnes ask Lucas about when she shows up at his house?

5. How does Zoe treat Lucas the first time they meet?

6. What does Lucas discover in the graveyard?

7. During his second visit with Zoe, Lucas notes that now he knew how Connor felt. What does he mean?

8. What advice does Zoe give Lucas about picking a movie?

9. What does Libby have to say about Connor?

10. Describe Connor's home.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In an essay, explain the importance of Lucas's relationship with Libby to the development of one or more of the novel's main ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Many of the novel's characters harm themselves or want to harm themselves in one way or another. In an essay, discuss what point you think the author may be making with these characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss in an essay what the novel argues about the importance of second chances.

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