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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. Where does Will work in the novel?

2. When confronted by Ronnie in Chapter 12, Blaze tells her she won't help her for fear of whom?

3. What is Ronnie's mother's name?

4. The cage that Will describes coming the following day is to protect from what, in Chapter 12?

5. Who comes up to Ronnie and tells her that Will is a serial dater in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify and analyze the elements of religious allusion in the novel. What is the significance of Pastor Harris' church? How does Ronnie feel about Christianity and God? What amends does Steve hope to attain with God? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the characters of Steve and Jonah in the novel. How old is Jonah? What is his reaction upon seeing his father? How old were Jonah and Ronnie when their father abandoned the family? How did the abandonment affect Ronnie and Jonah differently and why?

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