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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the status of the character as it unfolds throughout the story?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Character arc.
(c) Deus ex machina.
(d) Protagonist.

2. All of the money in Jonah's piggy bank has been collected from Ronnie for what?
(a) Picking up garbage.
(b) Doing his homework.
(c) Cleaning his room.
(d) Keeping secrets.

3. What game does Will play with Ronnie's family in Chapter 19?
(a) Shoots and Ladders.
(b) Gin Rummy.
(c) Liar's poker.
(d) Scrabble.

4. Jonah asks Steve to let him do what in Chapter 25?
(a) Stay with his aunt.
(b) Spend the night at Will's.
(c) Go to his mother's.
(d) Live with him permanently.

5. Who does Ronnie ask to take her home after the wedding in Chapter 26?
(a) Tom.
(b) Scott.
(c) Will.
(d) Steve.

6. Scott is very angry with Will for what, in the end of Chapter 28?
(a) Turning him into the police.
(b) Leaving Ashley.
(c) Leaving the game.
(d) Kissing Ronnie.

7. Ronnie worries about what to wear to whose wedding in Chapter 26?
(a) Steve's.
(b) Megan's.
(c) Kim's.
(d) Sarah's.

8. What refers to a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?
(a) Cataclysm.
(b) Irony.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Despondence.

9. What draws a big crowd, causing Ronnie to be somewhat annoyed at having to share the moment in Chapter 29?
(a) The seals swim away.
(b) The turtle eggs hatch.
(c) The otters are born.
(d) The gulls hatch.

10. Where does Ronnie tell Will she's been offered a place to study in Chapter 21?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Julliard.

11. Where does Will intend to go to college in the novel?
(a) New York University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Vanderbilt.

12. In Chapter 18, Scott complains to Will that he is damaging Scott's chances of what?
(a) Getting into Harvard.
(b) Getting a volleyball scholarship.
(c) Winning a trip to Hawaii.
(d) Getting a basketball scholarship.

13. Ronnie, Jonah, Will, and Steve are talking when Steve has a coughing fit that causes what, in Chapter 29?
(a) Him to have a heart attack.
(b) Him to run from the room.
(c) Him to vomit.
(d) Him to cough up blood.

14. Will's father owns what establishment in the town?
(a) Michaels' Bakery.
(b) Blakelee Brakes.
(c) Williams & Brothers Bank.
(d) Scholler Rugs.

15. When considering the differences between Ronnie and his ex-girlfriend, Will concludes that Ronnie is more what, in Chapter 20?
(a) Innocent.
(b) Menacing.
(c) Substantial.
(d) Practical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can Ronnie hear blaming her for the whole ordeal after the fight at the wedding in Chapter 26?

2. What do Ronnie and Will find Jonah doing in the work shed in Chapter 32?

3. In Chapter 30, the narrator states that Steve learned when that he was dying?

4. What collapses during the wedding when Will gets into a fight in Chapter 26?

5. What does Ronnie offer Blaze before leaving her in Chapter 26?

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