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

2. Where did Steve teach for many years before relocating?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Julliard.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

3. Where does Ronnie live with her mother?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

4. What refers to the inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces in literature?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Foreshadowing.

5. Steve's friend who is also what insists on going to get Ronnie in Chapter 5?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Steve say when he hears Ronnie's story about what happened in Chapter 11?

2. In the Prologue, Ronnie thinks of when it all began and shows her mother a news article about what?

3. Will approaches Ronnie on the beach in Chapter 12, and says he is there working as a volunteer for what?

4. What does Ronnie see Marcus playing with on the beach in Chapter 14?

5. What does Steve do as he waits for his ex-wife to arrive in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation do Ronnie and Blaze have in Chapter 12? How does Ronnie feel about it?

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

3. What lesson in trust does Ronnie learn in Chapter 14?

4. How are Marcus' feelings for Ronnie described in Chapter 4? What actions does he take in the chapter?

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

6. Where does Ronnie wake up in Chapter 12? Who approaches her?

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

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

9. What does Ronnie do after leaving the volleyball game in Chapter 3? Who does she meet?

10. Where does Ronnie go in Chapter 3? What happens as she watches a volleyball game there?

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