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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. The Calcasset Claws always play the team from which city each year in the exhibition game?
(a) Dewey.
(b) Freeport.
(c) Bangor.
(d) Miller.

2. Which character brought Evvie home the night of Tim's death?
(a) Lila.
(b) Andy.
(c) Frank.
(d) Kell.

3. Evvie chooses Dr. Jane Talco as a therapist for Dean in part because her website says that she treats what affliction?
(a) Sports psychology.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Anxiety.

4. What do Evvie and Dean agree will be Evvie's "go sign" (127) if she changes her mind about wanting to date?
(a) She will knock on his apartment door three times.
(b) She will wear her bathing suit in the house.
(c) She will say the word go.
(d) She will send him a letter.

5. Andy tells Evvie during the breakfast in Spring: Chapter 20 not to try to take what action in regards to Dean?
(a) Marry him.
(b) Date him.
(c) Impress him.
(d) Fix him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are said to be in attendance at the exhibition game as Dean throws his first pitch?

2. What adjective does Dean use to modify the word 'soulmate' when he refers to Andy as Evvie's "soulmate" (137)?

3. Who promises Rose that "It'll still be Christmas when [she] gets back" (99) from Florida?

4. In what town had Dean been renting a room while playing in the minors when he attended a party at the house with the pinball machine?

5. To what state had Evvie's mother Eileen moved once she abruptly left her husband and child in Maine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the blue suitcase in the narrative symbolize?

2. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Evvie experiences conflicting emotions when Dean tells her that he had wanted to kiss her several times during their day trip to Boston.

3. How does Holmes use the motif of sound in order to demonstrate Dean's love for the game of baseball?

4. Who is Monica?

5. Describe an instance when the use of a third person omniscient narrator helps Holmes demonstrate duplicity.

6. How does Holmes use the motif of sound to demonstrate Dean's grief at finding that he has lost the ability to pitch?

7. Discuss an instance in the text when Holmes uses humor in order to clearly illustrate a particular character's fear of change.

8. What is ironic about Evvie's first visit to the office of Dr. Jane Talco?

9. What story does Evvie tell Dean that causes Dean's mouth to fall open in Spring: Chapter 28?

10. From what angle does Evvie claim not to have seen "Calcasset in "forever" (119) as she and Dean drive toward Boston?

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