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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 Gramps to do in Chapter Twelve to break the tension between him and his friends?
(a) Take her out for a drink.
(b) Cook for her.
(c) Give her money.
(d) Drive her to school.

2. How does Marin think Gramps had enough money to send her to college?
(a) From his job.
(b) From gambling at casinos.
(c) From investing.
(d) From winning at Poker.

3. What is Marin's experience of eating dinner like in Chapter Nine?
(a) She gives all her food to Mabel because she can not stand the thought of Mabel being hungry.
(b) She finds she can not really eat.
(c) She eats ravenously.
(d) She eats without tasting anything.

4. What does Marin tell Mabel about the other people at the motel?
(a) They all had big problems.
(b) They never said a single word to her.
(c) The police often came for them.
(d) They were all very nice.

5. What happens at the end of Chapter Eight that startles Marin and Mabel?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A crack of lightening.
(c) A power outage.
(d) A ceiling collapse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mabel do at the end of Chapter Eleven that Marin appreciates?

2. In Chapter Ten, what do Marin and Mabel do on their own?

3. What is one thing Gramps taught Marin how to do well?

4. Who does Mabel suggest Marin reach out to for company in New York?

5. Who is Carlos's wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mabel tell Marin her parents were cleaning out her brother's old room?

4. In Chapter Twenty-Three, what does Mabel say she wishes she had done for Marin?

5. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Marin finally tell Mabel about Gramps?

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

7. In Chapter Seventeen, what does the stranger on the beach ask Marin that repulses her?

8. How does their time at Tommy's seem to change the dynamic between Marin and Mabel?

9. In Chapter Fifteen, what did Marin notice was wrong with Gramps?

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

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