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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. In Chapter 7, what was the name of Gat's New York girlfriend?

2. At the end of Chapter 26, what do Gat and Cadence do?

3. In Chapter 28, what type of paper does Cadence remember she and Gat becoming obsessed with several summers ago?

4. In Chapter 13, how long did Cadence say that the pain in her head started after the accident?

5. In Chapter 6, during Summer 15, how much later did Cadence arrive than the others at the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 38, what mottoes do Cadence, Mirren, Gat, and Johnny have?

2. In Chapter 32, what does Johnny want to own?

3. In Chapter 36, how does Cadence say that she spent her time when her dad went to the Colosseum?

4. In Chapter 14, what does Cadence's father decide they should do together?

5. In Chapter 8, what do Gat and Cadence believe about God?

6. In Chapter 39, why does Gat say that Cadence does not know him?

7. In Chapter 27, how is Cadence's room at Windemere described?

8. In Chapter 1, how does Cadence describe the Sinclairs?

9. How does Cadence describe New Clairmont and how it compares to the old house?

10. In Chapter 5, when did Cadence and Gat start spending time together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Sinclairs all have their own private ways of dealing with grief. What are the family grieving for? How is their grief for Tipper and for the cousins and Gat different? How do the various characters—Cadence, her aunts, her grandfather, and her younger cousins—deal with grief? Is the way that they are coping healthy or unhealthy?

Essay Topic 2

Tipper dies before summer 15. What was Tipper’s role in the family? How did she unify the family? Why did the family facture after her death?

Essay Topic 3

Except for Chapter 80, the novel is written in first person. How does the use of first person influence the story? How does that point of view determine how readers view the story, Cadence, and other characters in the book?

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