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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 does Mclean do when she thinks that her mother doesn't really want her at the beach house?
(a) Calls her father to come get her.
(b) Takes a bus back home.
(c) Drives away in her old car.
(d) Confronts her mother.

2. Who/What is Mclean researching at the library in Chapter 11?
(a) Genealogy.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Town history.

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

4. What are Mclean's plans for Spring Break?
(a) She is going to Texas with David.
(b) She is going to Florida with Deb.
(c) She is going to the beach with her mother.
(d) She is staying home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mclean call when she is distraught at the hotel?

2. What does Mclean learn about why David never showed up at the hotel?

3. What is the state of the Luna Blu restaurant by now?

4. What is Mclean's mother doing when Mclean sees her on TV?

5. David tells Mclean the story behind his ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Gus show his commitment to making the restaurant a success?

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

4. What is different about this new place for Mclean and her father that typically doesn't happen?

5. How does Mclean's mother respond when Mclean confronts her on the phone about the choices her mother has made that have impacted their lives?

6. What are Mclean's evolving thoughts about what home really is as she and her parents talk about the future?

7. What is it about the model that makes it seem so orderly according to Mclean?

8. Where does Mclean go after she leaves the beach house and who does she call to comfort her?

9. What options does Mclean have regarding her father's move to Hawaii?

10. How had Mclean misunderstood what her mother said to her friend at the beach house that had made Mclean so upset?

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