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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. Where is Gus being transferred for his job?
(a) London.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

2. When Mclean hears her father yelling in the restaurant, she knows that ___________________.
(a) He is angry at her.
(b) He can't get his car to start.
(c) He is firing somebody.
(d) He has burned himself.

3. What shop does Mclean enter after she walks to town?
(a) Cafe.
(b) Antiques.
(c) Book.
(d) Bakery.

4. How did Mclean's parents know where she was when she left the beach house?
(a) Mclean called her father.
(b) Her mother's friend saw her check in at the hotel.
(c) David told her father.
(d) She texted her father.

5. What does Mclean feel about living in Lakeview?
(a) She is finally home for the first time in years.
(b) She is a prisoner.
(c) She can't wait to leave.
(d) It is pleasant but boring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom has Mclean defended all through the book?

2. What does Mclean do when she thinks that her mother doesn't really want her at the beach house?

3. Where does Mclean go when school lets out early?

4. Where does Mclean go when she wants to think?

5. What is David not allowed to eat in his house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Mclean so upset that she takes off from the beach house in her old car?

2. What does Lindsay do with Mclean's father at the restaurant that flusters Opal and starts to make Mclean feel like she's on shaky ground?

3. Explain the foreshadowing used by the author when she mentions Mclean's old car?

4. Why does Mclean feel like she is being pushed out of her mother's house when she sees her things in storage and where does she go for a feeling of solidity?

5. In what ways does Mclean begin to see her mother in a new light?

6. How is this trip to the beach different from other trips there for Mclean and her mother?

7. What has happened to David as a result of Mclean's calling him to come to the Poseidon the night she was so upset?

8. What good comes out of Mclean's stay at the Poseidon regarding her parents' views of her?

9. How does Mclean learn about her father's new job in Hawaii and how does she feel about going there?

10. What do her friends confront Mclean about that makes her run from the restaurant where she had been helping with the model?

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