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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 does Sophie tell Robin about the conversation with her friends?

2. Who flings himself down on his knees, begging Sophie that the news about her and Robin is untrue?

3. Where do Sophie and Robin spend their three-week anniversary?

4. What picture does someone draw on the board in the art room that is meant to embarass Robin and Sophie?

5. How does the conversation between the three girls end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What great opportunity does Mr. Schultz present to Robin after class one day?

2. Describe Sophie Stein's reputation at her high school when the book begins.

3. Why do you think that Robin uses humor with Sophie to deflect the tension after he is hit by a snowball?

4. What is Robin's reaction when he hears that Sophie is taking a bath when he calls?

5. How does Robin feel when the hot college student calls him "babe?"

6. Why is Robin nervous before his first college art class?

7. Why is it significant that Robin can identify the lyrics to the Doors song that Tessa quotes on the first day of class?

8. How does Robin feel when he hears someone at his high school use the term "Don't be such a Stein?"

9. Why does Robin decide to grow a beard?

10. Why does Sophie say that she likes being an "outlaw?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sophie's relationship with her friends Rachel and Grace is strained during the book. How does the opinion of her friends effect Sophie's feelings towards Robin? What signs are there in the text that Sophie is more bothered by being shunned by her friends than she lets on? How does the relationship between Sophie and Robin change when Sophie and Rachel reconcile?

Essay Topic 2

Robin and Sophie deal with a lot of adversity in regards to their relationship. The other students verbally attack them and physically taunt them because of their choice to be together. Though it is miserable in some ways, in other ways, the adversity strengthens the bond between Sophie and Robin. Write about the specific ways that Sophie and Robin grow closer because of the adversity. Give examples to support your claims. When other students begin to accept the relationship, what happens to the bond between the young couple?

Essay Topic 3

Art plays a pivotal role in relationship of Robin and Sophie. Discuss the ways that the teenagers use art to express their feelings. How does art help or hurt their relationship? Do you think that Sophie and Robin would be together if they did not share a love of art?

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