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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 Jessica tell Kaylee to do for her when she pays a proper visit?

2. What does Jessica try not to do when Kaylee comes home with her friends when Jessica is first home from the hospital?

3. What does Jessica tell Fiona in Part II when she asks her if she is coming back to school?

4. What smell in the hospital does Jessica find unpleasant?

5. What does Fiona ask Jessica’s first period teacher when Jessica first returns to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jessica secretly wish that the roles between herself and Lucy had been reversed?

2. What does meeting Chloe make Jessica realize?

3. Why is Jessica upset after her leg surgery?

4. Why does Jessica put up a front when her sister Kaylee comes to visit?

5. Why is Jessica’s exchange with Kaylee and her friends so awkward when they come home?

6. Why is Dad skeptical about the Help Jessica Run campaign?

7. What has the track team decided to do to help Jessica run again?

8. Why does Jessica feel uncomfortable when Fiona asks her when she will be back at school?

9. What does Jessica realize about herself when she sees that her stump is becoming more manageable?

10. What does Jessica think about when she is in the shower?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining the significance of the running dream. What happens in the running dream, and how does its recurrence effect Jessica? How does the dream change throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Rosa tells Jessica that a finish line is a place of both starting and finishing something. Analyze how the author utilizes and develops this concept through Jessica and the events that take place in her life.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you examine Jessica’s decision to run with Rosa in the River Run. Describe what you believe are Jessica’s motivations for making this decision, and whether or not you think she achieved her prescribed goals.

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