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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. What does Hunter spend his days doing in order to keep busy after Nikki has left him?
(a) Doing charity work for the church.
(b) Working at the bank.
(c) Helping his dad at the garage.
(d) Helping his mom around the house.

2. Hunter attends a party one night that features a bowl full of ___________.
(a) Liqour bottles.
(b) Prescription pills.
(c) Condoms.
(d) LSD.

3. What does Summer hide from her new foster family in order to keep in touch with Kyle?
(a) Stamps.
(b) A pigeon.
(c) Her cell phone.
(d) A laptop.

4. What refers to an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, and an obsessive fear of gaining weight?
(a) Stimulant psychosis.
(b) Tachycardia.
(c) Anorexia nervosa.
(d) Tachypnea.

5. Where do Summer and her boyfriend hope to live until they find jobs after running away from Summer's foster home?
(a) Rest areas.
(b) Campgrounds.
(c) Motels.
(d) Truck stops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Autumn nearly raped by whom at her aunt's wedding?

2. What is the name of the grateful listener that Hunter cheats on Nikki with?

3. What concerns Hunter about his biological father?

4. What refers to a perception in the absence of a stimulus?

5. Hunter tells his mother about meeting whom, after Nikki has left him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by Autumn's illness in the novel? Who suggests a potential cause for the illness?

2. Where do Summer and Kyle go after running away in the novel? What are their plans?

3. What does Trey tell Autumn about her childhood when he arrives at Aunt Cora's house after the wedding? What does this inspire Autumn to do?

4. How does Autumn feel about the wedding planning for her aunt after Thanksgiving in the novel? Who does she invite over while her aunt is away?

5. What is Hunter's reaction upon first seeing the man he believes to be his biological father in the novel? Where does this take place?

6. Where does Kyle spend Thanksgiving in the novel? How does Summer feel about his absence?

7. How does Summer feel about her decision to run away from her foster home in the novel? Why?

8. What leads Autumn to begin drinking in the novel? Where does this first show to be a problem?

9. Who advises Hunter to let his obsession with his biological father go in the novel? What does he do instead?

10. What leads to the greatest increase in instability for Summer's character in the novel? How does she feel about her situation?

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