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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 is the name of the senior who takes a special interest in David?

2. To whom does Sarah give Manuel's shirts on the final night of the musical?

3. When the students are directed to crawl on the floor in the dark, how does Sarah recognize David?

4. What Latin term does the narrator use to describe David and Sarah's status with Mr. Kingsley following their failures in class?

5. According to the narrator on page 90, how do the English teens compare to the CAPA teens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of relationship does Sarah have with Mr. Kingsley, as explained on page 13? How does David feel about this?

2. What adults arrive with the English People and what does the narrator say about them?

3. What happens when Sarah confronts Mr. Kingsley about the situation with Joelle? What does he say, and how does she feel?

4. Where does David go the summer before sophomore year? What does he do while there?

5. Why does Mr. Kingsley contact Sarah's mother? What is Sarah's reaction to this intervention?

6. Who is Joelle? What happens between Joelle and Sarah during class at the beginning of sophomore year?

7. What is CAPA? What is the reader told about it at the beginning of the novel?

8. How does Mr. Kingsley exert direct influence over Sarah and David's relationship? What is the effect of this influence, as indicated on page 57?

9. Who is Manuel? What happens to him during auditions for the fall musical?

10. Why does Mr. Kingsley begin to take an interest in Sarah, as explained on page 45? What information does she tell him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay defining friendship from the perspective of Sarah and Karen. What is friendship, according to these characters? How do the choices they make reflect these values?

Essay Topic 2

The antagonist of a novel is a character who stands in opposition to the protagonist. Who is the antagonist of the novel? David? Mr. Kingsley? Martin? Or something more than a single individual? Make a case for that which you believe best fits the criteria of the novel’s antagonist.

Essay Topic 3

Sarah finds herself involved in several conflicts during the first section of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the other characters.

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