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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. In Chapter 21, Ronnie and Will spend the afternoon where?

2. What is the name of Will's younger brother who died in a car accident?

3. What is the cause of Steve's ailment in the novel?

4. What does Ronnie announce she wants to do in Chapter 33?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Will reveal about the fire at Pastor Harris' church in Chapter 32? What is Ronnie's response?

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

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

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

5. What does Will do after leaving the hospital in Chapter 28? What confrontations does he have?

6. What are Ronnie's impressions of Will's family in Chapter 19?

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

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

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

10. What causes the tension between Will and Ronnie in Chapter 29? What helps to ease the tension?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe and discuss the internal and external conflicts in Chapter 26. Why does Marcus cause a fight at the wedding? What is the outcome? Why does Ronnie choose to end her relationship with Will in the chapter?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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