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

2. Who does Ronnie console at the hospital in Chapter 28?

3. What do Ronnie and Will find Jonah doing in the work shed in Chapter 32?

4. Who saved Will and his mother in a car accident many years earlier in the novel?

5. In Chapter 23, Scott asks Will if he will start attending more practices before the big tournament that is coming up, which is the same weekend as the wedding for whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to the aid of Ronnie and Jonah while their father is in the hospital in Chapter 31? How?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Ronnie feel upon departing the wedding in Chapter 26? What actions does she take?

7. What does Will do in order to help Blaze in Chapter 28?

8. Why does Ronnie refuse Will's offer to stay in Chapter 32? What do they discover Jonah doing?

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

10. What argument takes place between Ronnie and Kim in Chapter 33? What does Ronnie discover?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the symbolism of the hatching turtles, and the impending departure of Will in Chapter 29. How are these two events related metaphorically? How is the extent of Steve's illness revealed in this chapter?

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 discuss Ronnie's history as a piano prodigy. How is music something shared by Ronnie and her father? What does music represent to Ronnie? How is it symbolic that Ronnie is set up for stealing music from the music store?

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