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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. Jodi Simmons from Norwood sees April at Disney World and yells her name. What is April's first reaction?
2. What does April's dad tell her on the day after the party?
3. What does meeting Abby again in Grove City teach April?
4. April gets out of the house. Where has the hitman been all this time?
5. Soon after Amy's party, April decides to return to Norwood. What helps her decide to do this?
Short Essay Questions
1. The day after April's father tells her she can't go to the university of her choice, she has made a decision to go home to Norwood. How does she plan to do this?
2. April and her grandmother have decided they must head for Florida. April helps her grandmother pack and they set off, taking the dog. April also has her old tennis racket. They only make it to Petersburg, Virginia that night. What happens at the motel during the night?
3. April is worried about the car behind them and decides to do something. What is it and what is the resutl?
4. The day after Amy's party, April is hungover and depressed. What does her father tell her that makes everything seem so bad that she just wants to get out and go back to Norwood?
5. April had called her grandmother from the airport in Sarasota and Lorelei was not happy to hear from her, advising her to go back. April does show up at her grandmother's door and what does she see? What does she suddenly realize?
6. Why is April secretly glad that Vamp tells them he is going to hold them hostage and confines them to a bedroom closet?
7. April decides the only way to handle what she found out from Jodi is to continue playing tennis and going out with Larry. What happens at Amy's party? How does Larry react?
8. April feels some sympathy for her father and decides the Disney World trip might be a good idea after all. What is the drive to Orlando like?
9. What does April find out about from Jodi while she is talking to her at Disney World? How does she feel about this?
10. When April gets home from the movie, her parents have obviously been arguing. What does her father then tell April?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In this coming of age story, April does reach a level of maturity, as we can see by reading the Epilogue. She has had to make choices that she would not have made as the carefree teen she once was. Give two examples that occur in Chapter 14 that show she must accept reality. Explain how her choices reflect her growing maturity and how these choices are different from those she might have made only a few months before.
Essay Topic 2
A metaphor, in literature, is something that represents something else.
1) Show how the author uses tennis and/or a tennis racket as a metaphor for April's life up to the point of the Epilogue. Give four examples.
2) What does April say in the Epilogue so that the reader now knows that the tennis metaphor has been discarded and April's transition is complete?
Essay Topic 3
The concept of survival is important in Don't Look Behind You. Not only must the characters survive physically, they fight for the survival of their identity. Citing two specific examples, show how the following characters are fighting for their survival in one way or another:
(1) April;
(2) Mrs. Corrigan;
(3) Mr. Corrigan.
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