Beautiful Disaster: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Jamie McGuire
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Beautiful Disaster: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Jamie McGuire
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 is Parker’s last name in the novel?

2. What is the title of Chapter 10?

3. In the bet between Travis and Abby at the fight in Chapter 4, Travis says that if he wins the bet, Abby will have to do what?

4. What does Parker give to Abby for her birthday in Chapter 6?

5. Where does the narrator say America met Shepley in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Abby come to learn about the surprise party being planned for her birthday in Chapter 6?

2. How is Abby’s appearance described at the club in Chapter 3? What does Abby overhear Travis saying about her at the bar?

3. What causes Travis to storm off from in the cafeteria in Chapter 4?

4. Where does Abby wake up in Chapter 8? Why is she told to call America?

5. What confrontation takes place between America and Abby in Chapter 8?

6. How does Abby come to eavesdrop on America and Travis’s conversation about her in Chapter 4? What is said?

7. How does Abby respond to the rumors that begin to circulate about her in Chapter 3? What does Travis suggest?

8. How does Abby meet Travis Maddox in Chapter 1? How would you describe their meeting?

9. What confrontation takes place between Abby and Travis in the beginning of Chapter 10?

10. How does Travis go about inserting himself into Abby’s life initially in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the setting established in Chapter 1 of Beautiful Disaster. Where is Eastern University located? What religion is the college associated with? What clues in the first chapter indicate the time period in which the story takes place?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the fight between Travis and Brock McMann in Chapter 16. How does Brock differ from Travis’s usual opponents at Eastern? What is the outcome of the fight? How does the outcome predict Travis’s future as a fighter?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of gambling in Beautiful Disaster. What is the bet that is placed between Abby and Travis? Why does Abby engage in the bet? What is the outcome? How does this motif apply to Abby’s past?

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