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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. Who is Tonya?

2. What is Steve's last name?

3. What color are Eleanor's eyes?

4. Park considers of Eleanor's performance with her poem, "She was the only person in class who'd read her poem like it wasn't" what?

5. Who hugs Eleanor after she performs her poem in English class?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the home where Eleanor lives described in the narrative?

2. What does Park give to Eleanor in Chapter 9? Why?

3. What causes Eleanor internal conflict regarding her feelings for Park?

4. How is Eleanor's bedroom described at her mom's house? With whom does she share her room?

5. How does Park's mother react when Park is suspended for fighting?

6. With whom has Eleanor lived for the past year in the beginning of the novel? How did she come to live there?

7. How does Eleanor convince her mother to allow her to go to babysit for her father in Chapter 18?

8. Why do the vulgar phrases on Eleanor's book covers cause internal conflict for Park?

9. Why does Eleanor choose to take the bus to school instead of getting a ride with Richie?

10. What does Park's father's pickup truck signify in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the families of Eleanor and Park in the novel. How many siblings do Eleanor and Park have? How would you compare their household incomes? How supportive is each family?

Essay Topic 2

What communication takes place between Eleanor and Park after Eleanor has moved to Minnesota? Why does Eleanor struggle to communicate with Park? What does she send him in the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Eleanor's father. What role does Eleanor's biological father play in her life and the lives of her siblings? Why does Eleanor's father contact her in the novel? How does Eleanor respond?

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