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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 composer does Ginny listen to while talking to her father?

2. What word does Ginny use to describe Andy's adoptive parents?

3. What is Ginny's hobby?

4. Who does Any call deranged?

5. What is Mr. Calvert's latest hobby?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ginny's job at the Yacht Club?

2. How does the author describe Harry and Angie Lime?

3. Why does Ginny think Joe was sent to prison?

4. Why does Ginny think Rhianna is in a better situation than she?

5. Why does Ginny work so hard at French?

6. What is Ginny's opinion of Mr. Calvert's paintings?

7. What did Helen tell Rhiannon on the phone?

8. What problem does Helen have with her father?

9. What does Ginny's father tell Ginny about her half-brother Robert?

10. What romantic ideals does Rhiannon hold about Ginny's current situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Ginny use art to cope with her problems? How does Ginny's idea art develop through the book and what does this symbolize in terms of her own character and what she has learned?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author represent teenage years and its problems? How does the author change his representation to fit the story? What tone does the representation give the story?

Essay Topic 3

What does Ginny remember about her childhood? How have these events from Ginny's childhood affected her? How does Ginny recover from the traumas of her early years?

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