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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. Where does Sarah work while she attends CAPA?

2. Upon leaving the party at the end of the first section of the novel, to what location does Sarah walk?

3. What do the students begin studying at the start of sophomore year?

4. When David drives Sarah home on page 86, how do they interact with one another?

5. Who teaches Movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does the illicit party held at Mr. Kingsley's house end? What happens to Sarah as a result?

3. Who is Mr. Kingsley? What is the reader told about him at the beginning of the novel? What indicates he might not be trustworthy?

4. What happens during Movement class? What does Ms. Rozot tell Sarah?

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

6. What happens during the afterparty held at Mr. Kingsley's house? What does Sarah discover?

7. How do the students feel about Mr. Kingsley, as explained on page 13?

8. Who greets Sarah as she sits alone in the parking lot following the Candide performance? Where do they go and what do they do?

9. Who is Elli? What does she do for Sarah and the end of the first section of the novel?

10. For what production are the CAPA students preparing as Sarah begins her sophomore year? What roles do Sarah and David play in this production?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Martin’s play symbolize the novel’s plot and themes? What similarities exist between Martin’s fictional world of the “real” world of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Heartbreak is a major theme of the novel. Choose three situations in which this theme is illustrated. Explain how each situation illustrates the theme of heartbreak, and evaluate what the author is trying to say about this subject.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story through multiple perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of three different individuals affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through a single perspective?

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