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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. What is one of Marin's favorite books?

2. Who, besides Mabel and her parents, called to check on Marin in the immediate aftermath of Gramps's death?

3. What does Marin tell Mabel she can not get in the stores on the east coast?

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

5. Why does Mabel tell Marin she really came all this way to see Marin in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marin tell Mabel she wants to change her major?

2. What story does Emily tell Marin about Gramps in Chapter Five?

3. What does Mabel say her parents want Marin to do?

4. Why does Gramps get so angry at Sister Josephine in Part I?

5. What is Mabel most frustrated and angry with Marin about?

6. What does Mabel tell Marin about her college experience that shocks Marin?

7. In Chapter Seven, why does Marin also change her dress when Mabel does?

8. Why is Marin struggling so much during her first months at college?

9. How does Hannah, Marin's college roommate, treat Marin?

10. What does Gramps most enjoy doing with his friends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does LaCour portray Gramps's and Marin's relationship throughout We Are Okay? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What memory, previously undiscovered, does Ana's warmth and love bring back to Marin with force in the very end of the novel, and why does this memory mean so much to Marin? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Gramps get so upset when Marin asks him for a baby picture of herself? Months later, after Gramps's death, why is Marin fixated on the absence of a baby picture of her in her high school yearbook? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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