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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 do Ronnie and Will find Jonah doing in the work shed in Chapter 32?
(a) Trying to finish the sculpture.
(b) Trying to finish the window.
(c) Building an airplane.
(d) Writing to his father.

2. 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) Irony.
(b) Despondence.
(c) Cataclysm.
(d) Oxymoron.

3. Who actually set fire to Pastor Harris' church in the novel?
(a) Scott.
(b) Will.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Steve.

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

5. In Chapter 30, the narrator states that Steve learned when that he was dying?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) March.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the money in Jonah's piggy bank has been collected from Ronnie for what?

2. What is the name of Will's father in "The Last Song"?

3. In Chapter 33, Ronnie gets her father to admit to her that he played the piano for what reason?

4. Will and Scott are playing the final game for the championship when Will sees who catch fire in Chapter 28?

5. Will insists on going to his house to do what in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Ronnie and Will spend the day doing in Chapter 21? What do they talk about?

2. What concerns Will in the beginning of Chapter 23? What does he spend his time with Ronnie doing?

3. What confrontation does Scott have with Will in Chapter 18? How does Ronnie interrupt the conversation?

4. Why is Scott pressuring Will in Chapter 18? Why does Will succumb to this pressure?

5. What does Will come to appreciate about Ronnie in Chapter 20?

6. When does the narrator say Steve learned he was dying in Chapter 30? How did he choose to live his final moments?

7. What revelations does Steve have in Chapter 25 regarding his children?

8. What internal conflicts and external obstacles does Ronnie face in Chapter 26?

9. How does Ronnie react to the news of her father's prognosis in Chapter 31?

10. What plan does Marcus develop in Chapter 27? What is his objective?

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