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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Ronnie in the beginning of the story?

2. What gets spilled on Ronnie's shirt in Chapter 3?

3. Marcus and his friends steal all of whose food in Chapter 8?

4. Who does Ronnie go looking for the next morning after the party in Chapter 10?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Steve contemplate as he waits for Ronnie in Chapter 9?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of trust in the novel. How does Ronnie's distrust give way to trust, and what does this mean regarding her character arc? What moral lesson in trust does Ronnie learn through the character of Ashley? How does Will serve to develop Ronnie's trust?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the plot structure of the novel, identifying and discussing the exposition, rising action, climax and denouement. Where does the novel return to in Chapter 37? What is the effect of this return to the beginning on the reader? What peace does Steve make before dying?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the developing relationship between Ronnie and Will in the narrative. How compatible are Ronnie and Will as a couple? What similarities do they share in temperament and in interests? How do they differ?

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