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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 happens between Marin and Mabel at the beach in Chapter Ten?
(a) They almost drown.
(b) One of them gets bitten by a shark.
(c) They surf.
(d) They engage in sexual activity.

2. Who do Marin and Mabel run into on their way home from the beach in Chapter Ten?
(a) Gramps.
(b) Ben.
(c) Javier.
(d) Ana.

3. Why does Marin stop using the water at the motel?
(a) Bugs crawl out of the faucet when she uses it.
(b) She thinks she hears Gramps singing every time she turns the faucet on.
(c) She thinks the water is burning her.
(d) She thinks the water is really dirty.

4. What does Marin wonder in Chapter Eight in relation to Gramps's house and how she left it?
(a) If the house fully burned down or not.
(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 any of their things are still there.

5. In Chapter Twelve, who does Gramps say he would be lost without?
(a) Jones.
(b) Freeman.
(c) Samantha.
(d) Birdie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marin ask Gramps to do in Chapter Twelve to break the tension between him and his friends?

2. What does Marin consider changing her major to in Chapter Eight?

3. Who does Mabel show Marin a picture of in Chapter Fourteen?

4. What game do Marin and Mabel play in Chapter Eleven?

5. Why do Mabel's parents clean out her brother's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in Chapter Eight that scares Marin and Mabel a bit?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter Nine, who comes to take care of Marin and Mabel in the blizzard?

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

5. What does Marin ask Mabel to do in Chapter Eight when she becomes emotionally overwhelmed?

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

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

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

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

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

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