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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 did Mclean and her mother buy when they went on beach vacations before the divorce?
(a) Big hats.
(b) Flip flops.
(c) Earrings.
(d) Bracelets.

2. Why does Mclean do all the cooking for her and her father?
(a) She is tired of eating fast food.
(b) Her father is a chef and doesn't want to cook at home.
(c) She wants to train to be a chef.
(d) Her father cannot cook anything.

3. What is Mclean's father's job?
(a) Car salesman.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Restaurant consultant.
(d) Mechanic.

4. Why does Mclean tell Riley that she doesn't make friends?
(a) She is a loner.
(b) She moves so much.
(c) She doesn't want to get hurt.
(d) She is so shy.

5. Why are Dave's parents upset with him?
(a) He got into the liquor cabinet.
(b) He failed biology.
(c) He wrecked the car.
(d) He didn't go to college early.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lindsay?

2. Opal agrees to put together a model of the town in exchange for what?

3. What is one story circulating at school about Mclean's injury?

4. Mclean has step-siblings who are __________________.

5. Who is the boy who saves Mclean from the police at the neighbor's party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Riley points out something to Mclean about making friends when she helps Mclean after she injures herself at her locker? What does Riley tell her that surprises Mclean?

2. What changes does Mclean see in her mother when she spots her at the big game?

3. What point of view is the book written in and what does that reveal about Mclean, the main character?

4. What does Mclean reveal about her mother's background and her parents' relationship later on?

5. What is Mclean's relationship with her parents? What does Mclean blame for her parents' divorce?

6. What examples do David and Mclean share with each other when discussing actions and consequences?

7. What is the premise of WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE?

8. What does Mclean think about when she watches the stars from a party next door one night?

9. What happened that made Mclean feel as if she no longer fit into her mother's world?

10. Who is Peter and how is his personality revealed more in his request that Mclean go to a game with her mother?

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