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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Marin avoid talking to on the phone in Chapter Two?
(a) Her own mother.
(b) Mabel's parents.
(c) Mabel's brother.
(d) Her own sister.

2. What does Emily tell Marin about Gramps being in the water on the beach?
(a) It is too cold for him to be in the water.
(b) It can be dangerous.
(c) It is good for him.
(d) It is too hot for him to be on the sand.

3. Where is Marin spending Christmas in Part I?
(a) With Jacob.
(b) With Hannah.
(c) California.
(d) Her dorm.

4. Who is Mabel's first call when she arrives at Marin's?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her roommate.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her parents.

5. What do Marin's mother's friends often give to her?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Shells.
(d) Clothes.

6. What does Ana use in one of her paintings to represent stars?
(a) Tinfoil.
(b) Cubic zirconia.
(c) Ground fool's gold.
(d) Rodanthe.

7. Who did Marin live with before coming to college?
(a) Her best friend's mother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Gramps.

8. Where did Marin and Mabel once fantasize about meeting up when they both went away to college?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Nebraska.

9. What weather event happens in Chapter Eight?
(a) A flood.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A heatwave.
(d) A blizzard.

10. Where does Marin suggest she and Mabel go together in the next few days in Chapter Four?
(a) The shopping district.
(b) Chicago.
(c) The Everglades.
(d) New York City.

11. Why does Mabel tell Marin she really came all this way to see Marin in Chapter Four?
(a) So that she could tell Marin goodbye.
(b) So that Marin would have to talk back to her.
(c) So that Marin could see how sad Mabel was.
(d) So that she could tell Marin about her brother's wedding.

12. What does Emily tell Marin about the surfers and Gramps?
(a) The surfers took up a collection for Gramps so he could have a new board.
(b) The surfers offered to pay Claire's medical bills, but Gramps refused.
(c) One day they let him have the water to himself.
(d) He was never mean to any of them.

13. What is Mabel's and Marin's very first conversation ever about?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Hair.
(d) Nails.

14. What does Marin buy for Ana and Javier?
(a) A glass pitcher.
(b) A vase.
(c) A silver hen.
(d) Bowls.

15. Who does Marin talk with about her favorite book?
(a) The taxi driver.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Marin and Mabel buy new dresses in Chapter Seven?

2. What is one of Marin's favorite books?

3. What does Marin hear Mabel hear telling Jacob that breaks Marin's heart?

4. Who does Mabel tell Marin she has been thinking about a lot lately?

5. What does Marin admit to herself that she is afraid of in Chapter Four?

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