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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 Fiona ask Jessica’s first period teacher when Jessica first returns to school?
2. What was Jessica’s mom looking at in the kitchen one night and crying over before Jessica found her?
3. What does Jessica tell Fiona in Part II when she asks her if she is coming back to school?
4. What does Jessica’s mom do when she realizes Jessica went up the stairs on her own?
5. What is Gavin’s social status at school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Jessica feel self-conscious about her pants on her first day back at school?
2. What does Jessica think about when she is in the shower?
3. How does Jessica manage to get herself up the stairs?
4. How does Jessica react when her parents tell her she cannot have anymore pain medication?
5. How does Jessica react to the running videos that Kyro shows her?
6. Why does Jessica feel emotional when her dad pulls into their driveway for the first time since the accident?
7. What does meeting Chloe make Jessica realize?
8. For what reason does Jessica agree that she should at least try going back to school?
9. Why does Jessica feel uncomfortable when Fiona asks her when she will be back at school?
10. Why does Jessica feel silly about not taking up Rosa’s offer to help her with math homework?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you explore Jessica passion for running. Why does she love running, and how does her emotional spirit fall and rise after she loses a leg and assumes she is unable to run anymore?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the friendship that develops between Rosa and Jessica. What is the nature of their relationship at the beginning of the novel, and how does it grow throughout the story?
Essay Topic 3
Rosa tells Jessica that she wishes that people would see her for who she is, not her condition. What effect does this have on Jessica, and to what extremes does she go to to make sure people see Rosa for who she is?
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