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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. What does Ronnie accuse Will of not doing when she confronts him in Chapter 13?

2. What is the main character of a literary narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve?

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

4. In what month is Ronnie's birthday?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens at the party Ronnie attends in Chapter 10? What worries her about the events?

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

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

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

6. What is Ronnie's reaction to her father's lack of punishment for her arrest in Chapter 11? Why?

7. What foreshadowing is revealed in the Prologue? How is the end of the novel set up from this first opening?

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

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

10. How does the relationship between Will and Ronnie progress in Chapter 13? Where does he take her on their day together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and analyze the relationship between Marcus and Blaze in "The Last Song". How did Blaze and Marcus meet? In what ways does Marcus appear to use Blaze? What is foreshadowed by Marcus' obvious interest in Ronnie?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the character of Ronnie. How old is Ronnie as the novel begins? Where is she going, and how does she feel about her father? What is Ronnie's history in New York, and what legal problems does she have there?

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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