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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 Lyssa work?

2. What has Rena wanted to do with Dori since she arrived in town for the wedding?

3. What movie does Lyssa's mother take her to see when Lyssa is 7 in the story Happily Ever After?

4. Why does Dori tell the stranger at breakfast she is wearing a t-shirt that says "bride"?

5. Who intervenes to help Lyssa's boyfriend at the pharmacy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Rena and JT know each other in the story Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain?

2. Why does Lyssa's coworker Mackenzie say Lyssa was picked to appear in the music video filming?

3. What kind of relationship did Claire used to have with the Halls, her old neighbors?

4. Why is Travis accosted at the pharmacy in the story Happily Ever After?

5. Why does Lyssa dress and groom herself very carefully for the meeting with her mother's doctors?

6. What does Rena think about the dangers of her job as a photographer sometimes working in war zones?

7. Why is Claire mainly seeing her boyfriend Jackson?

8. What does Puppy tell Claire the first time she sees her in the Confederate flag bikini?

9. What happens to Rena's sister Elizabeth?

10. What happens to Aaron when he drives Claire home from the party her senior year?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The last sentence in the story "Boys Go to Jupiter" reads "There are still ten feet between her and the echoing sound of her own voice, telling her she can still be anybody she wants to" (81). Write an essay explaining the meaning of this sentence within the full context of Claire's experience that Evans has laid out for the reader throughout the whole story, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the bronze key Cecilia steals from Alcatraz, keeping in mind the significance of the jail to her family history? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What kind of responsibilities does the narrator, Cecilia, in the story Alcatraz seem to feel she has to both her mother and her grandfather, Charles Sullivan, who was wrongly imprisoned for some years in the infamous jail? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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