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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ronnie breaks up a fight at the snack bar when she notices what in Chapter 5?
(a) A hundred dollar bill.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) A woman crying.
(d) A lost toddler.

2. What refers to a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Foreshadowing.

3. How old is Ronnie in the beginning of the story?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 17.

4. What in literature refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Rising Action.
(c) Argumentation.
(d) Rhetoric.

5. Ronnie calls Steve to pick her up where in Chapter 11?
(a) The bus station.
(b) The police station.
(c) Her mother's house.
(d) Will's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Will's ex-girlfriend in the novel?

2. What do Steve and Jonah go to do at the beach in Chapter 11?

3. In Chapter 14, Ronnie goes to watch Will play in what?

4. Steve shows Ronnie what on the beach in Chapter 11?

5. When Marcus hits on Ronnie in Chapter 3, she brushes him off and goes to join whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Steve do as he awaits the arrival of his children in Chapter 2? How does he feel about seeing them?

2. What actions does Marcus take when Blaze and Ronnie are eating at a diner in Chapter 8?

3. Where does Ronnie have an encounter with Blaze in Chapter 10? What happens as a result?

4. Where does Ronnie wish she were spending the summer in Chapter 1? What limitations prevent her from doing so?

5. What inconsistencies can be seen in Ronnie's feelings about her father between the Prologue and Chapter 1? What does this foreshadow?

6. What happens at the party Ronnie attends in Chapter 10? What worries her about the events?

7. How does Steve feel about his daughter? What efforts does he make in order to ensure her happiness in the novel?

8. Where is Ronnie going to stay with her father in Chapter 1? How is Ronnie's relationship with her father described?

9. How is the relationship between Blaze and Marcus defined in the novel? What is unhealthy about it?

10. What is revealed about Blaze and her parents in Chapter 8? How does this relate to Ronnie's situation?

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