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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 do dancers use to keep the edges of their ribbons from fraying?

2. What do Dara and Marie jokingly call Charlie's PT?

3. Why do the other students pick on Bailey Bloom?

4. Why does Marie grow upset with Derek in Part II?

5. When was the Durant School of Dance founded?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dara refuse to touch students past a certain age?

2. How do Charlie, Marie and Dara originally meet?

3. How do Dara's and Marie's parents die?

4. What begins to go wrong with the contractor, Derek, at the dance studio in Part II?

5. What are Charlie's health problems and how did he develop them?

6. What happens at the dance school in Part I that sets Dara, Marie and Charlie on a terrible trajectory?

7. In Part II, what begins to happen between Marie and Derek?

8. How do Charlie, Dara and Marie make the choice to not only repair, but expand, the studio?

9. Why does Dara wait to tell Charlie about her worries about Marie in Part II?

10. What does Dara's, Charlie's, and Marie's house look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Dara's overriding impression and memory of hers and Marie's mother? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How and why do Dara, Charlie, and Marie decide to expand their dance studio instead of just repairing Studio B after the fire there? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Dara believe that she is the strongest of the three of them, herself, Charlie, and Marie, and in what ways does Dara assert her dominance between the three of them? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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