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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marin ask the man in the motel to tell her?
(a) To let her know if he is going to the beach.
(b) To give her money if he has any.
(c) If an old man is outside her room, to knock on her door.
(d) To let her know if he has any marijuana.

2. What does Marin suggest she and Mabel do in case the power outage lasts a long time?
(a) Turn their phones off to conserve power.
(b) Make a distress flag.
(c) Eat all the food in the fridge.
(d) Call Mabel's mother now.

3. What does Marin wonder in Chapter Eight in relation to Gramps's house and how she left it?
(a) If any of their things are still there.
(b) If Freeman has changed the locks at the house yet, as she asked him to do.
(c) If she will inherit the house or not.
(d) If the house fully burned down or not.

4. In Chapter Twelve, what does Gramps say he needs to tell Marin about?
(a) How to cook.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Different kinds of love.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. What does Marin ask Gramps in Chapter Fifteen that he scoffs at?
(a) If he is going to stop playing poker.
(b) If he is going to stop surfing.
(c) Whether he has been to the doctor.
(d) If he has enough money to live on.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ben's dog?

2. What does Marin remember having in their pockets with Mabel on the morning after the beach?

3. In Chapter Twelve, who does Gramps say he would be lost without?

4. Where does Marin go most mornings after Mabel leaves for college in Chapter Seventeen?

5. Who is Carlos's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gramps tell Marin when Gramps tells Marin he has given her money for college?

2. What painting does Mabel show Marin in Chapter Eight?

3. What does Marin most fear her presence with Gramps is doing to him in Part III?

4. How does Marin suspect Gramps was able to send her to college?

5. What does Gramps say he has to tell Marin about following her night out with Mabel in Chapter Twelve?

6. Why does Marin leave right from the police station for the airport?

7. Where does Marin stay when she first arrives in her college town, and what does Mabel ask her about this time period?

8. What is awkward at Tommy's house for Marin and Mabel?

9. How does Gramps react when he sees Marin and Mabel after the night they sneak out?

10. What does Marin ask Mabel about in detail in Chapter Fourteen that is hard for Marin to do but she knows is the right thing?

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