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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 do Marin and Mabel eat for dinner in Chapter Fourteen?

2. Why does Marin decline the offer to drive with Ana and Javier to drop Mabel off at college?

3. Who does Marin call when she is fully panicked about Gramps in Chapter Nineteen?

4. What does Tommy tell Marin to do if she gets into trouble over Christmas?

5. How does Marin think Gramps had enough money to send her to college?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Ten, what do Mabel and Marin do when they sneak out together?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Marin find that she so badly would like to work at Claudia's pottery shop? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Marin at first resist the idea of coming back to California with Mabel and joining Mable's family? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does the power outage and staying at the groundskeeper's house change the dynamic between Marin and Mabel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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