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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 does Will confess frightens him in Chapter 23?

2. For whom does everyone raise a toast during Will's birthday party in Chapter 20?

3. Chapter 30 occurs how many months after the previous chapter?

4. What surrounds Stella as she sinks in the icy water?

5. According to the video which Stella uploads in Chapter 16, what is she going to steal from cystic fibrosis?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Will's birthday party end? What are the CFers told?

2. How has Will changed in Chapter 30? What are his plans?

3. How is Stella's life saved after she falls in the pond?

4. In Chapter 17, how does Stella prepare for her date with Will? What obstacles does she face?

5. What two gifts does Will give Stella in Chapter 29?

6. What agreement has Will come to with his mother in Chapter 30?

7. How does Will and Stella's date end in Chapter 19? How do they avoid detection?

8. What are the results of the tests in Chapter 28? How does Will react to the news?

9. What sends Will into a panic in Chapter 28? How does Dr. Hamid soothe him?

10. Why does Will leave the hospital for good? What does he ask Stella to do first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of both Stella and Will affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one of their perspectives?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the changes both Stella and Will experience over the course of the novel. How do they change, and how do they remain the same?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, Five Feet Apart. How does the title reflect the lives of the characters? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the novel?

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