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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. Hannah feels that most of her Thirteen Reasons happened as a result of?

2. Who introduced Hannah to Jessica?

3. Where does the Oh My Dollar Valentines event take place?

4. What kind of list did Alex Standall write?

5. How does Clay feel about the tapes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Oh My Dollar Valentine's" event?

2. Why is Courtney included in Hannah's tapes?

3. How did Hannah meet Jessica and Alex?

4. What is Clay thinking about as Hannah is recounting the Valentine's event?

5. Why does Hannah feel that the rest of her 13 reasons were either directly or indirectly related to this list?

6. What will happen if the recipients of the tapes do not listen to them and follow Hannah's map?

7. What is Clay Jensen doing as the story opens?

8. What technique does the author use to tell the main body of the story?

9. How does Clay feel about what he has heard on the tapes he is mailing to Jenny?

10. What is inside the package that Clay receives when he arrives home from school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clay's friend Tony has been a part of the story from the very beginning. However, it is not until Part 6 that the reader becomes aware of Tony's role in the Hannah's tapes.

1) Who is Tony?

2) How did he know Hannah?

3) Why do you think Hannah trusted him with the tapes and not Clay?

4) Why do you think Tony is taking his job so seriously?

Use the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How is Bryce Walker a major character in this story?

1) List Hannah's interactions with Bryce in the book.

2) How have those interactions influenced Hannah's choices?

3) List Clay's interactions with Bryce in the book.

4) How have the memories of those interactions changed Clay?

Use examples from the text to answer the the question.

Essay Topic 3

Clay finds a picture of Hannah and Courtney in the Scribble Book at Monet's, later he realizes that Tyler is the person who put the picture in the book.

1) Who took the picture of the girls?

2) Why was it taken?

3) What was the significance of the picture to Hannah? What did it represent to her?

4) Why might Tyler have put the picture in the book? Does it indicate how he felt after listening to the tapes?

5) Do you think Tyler was changed by Hannah's death and tapes? Why or why not?

Use the text to support your answers.

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