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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. What does Ronnie begin to do when she arrives home in Chapter 14?
(a) Break the window.
(b) Take a bath.
(c) Take a nap.
(d) Pack.

2. 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) Rhetoric.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Argumentation.
(d) Rising Action.

3. In Chapter 11, Steve and Jonah spend the day putting up a barrier in front of what in the house?
(a) The piano.
(b) The staircase.
(c) The front door.
(d) The broken window.

4. In Chapter 14, Ronnie goes to watch Will play in what?
(a) A tennis match.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) A volleyball game.
(d) A concert.

5. How long does Will wait on the beach before Ronnie comes out to speak to him in Chapter 14?
(a) Hours.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) Days.
(d) 10 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ronnie learns that who is Will's ex-girlfriend in Chapter 14?

2. Ronnie has had some legal problems in her hometown because of what in Chapter 1?

3. What is taking place at the beach when Ronnie arrives in Chapter 3?

4. What refers to a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

5. What does Ronnie tell her father she never wants to see or hear again in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What argument do Will and Scott get into in the beginning of Chapter 5? Why?

3. What fight breaks out in Chapter 5? Who begins it and who ends it?

4. What confrontation does Ronnie have with Will in Chapter 13? What is Will's response?

5. What happens when a police officer comes to take Ronnie home in Chapter 6?

6. What attracts Ronnie to Blaze in the novel? What does this reveal about Ronnie's character?

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

8. What main characters are established in the Prologue? What is the protagonist preparing to do?

9. How has Steve's abandonment affected Ronnie? How is this seen in Chapter 1?

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

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