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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 Claire's family situation?
2. What is Grace's response when her mother asks about the boy she has been seen hanging out with?
3. What word does Maya settle upon when she decides how it feels for her dad to be back in the family home full-time while her mother is in rehab?
4. What news does Joaquin deliver at the diner that causes Maya to choke on her cookie?
5. How does Grace react when Rafe guesses correctly that she is "worried that the adoptive parents [she] chose for Peach are going to split up"? (186)
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Maya characterize her relationship with Lauren?
2. For what transgression does Maya blame Claire for an extended period of time near the end of the couple's relationship and why?
3. What do the Oreos symbolize in the scene between Lauren and Maya?
4. How is the theme of isolation depicted within Joaquin's reaction to his sisters' queries after his altercation with Adam?
5. When Grace muses that she is now a girl who does not "have friends anymore" (183), she makes one exception. Whom does she say is her friend?
6. What turns out to be the mysterious event involving Joaquin and the Buchanans?
7. What does the narrator mean when stating that Grace feels "trapped in the amber of her pregnancy" (182)?
8. After Claire and Maya's break-up, Lauren asks about the origin of Maya's sunburn. What is the significance of Maya's cryptic reply that she had flown "too close to the sun" (200)?
9. How is the theme of secrecy depicted within Claire's accusations toward Maya during their fight that ends in a break-up?
10. What does Joaquin do when he is overcome by the feelings associated with his altercation with Adam?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the message of Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree concerning the link between family bonds and emotional stability?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's messages about secrecy and deception within Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of each sibling's character and progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.
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