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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 Gabi decide to do to help her deal with her feelings about her father?

2. What shocking news does Gabi's mother tell her on November 15?

3. Who does Gabi think she might also like even though she is dating Eric?

4. Why will Gabi not tell Eric the truth about her father?

5. Who does Gabi see Eric kissing at the mall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gabi see Eric doing at the mall that makes her break up with him?

2. How is Gabi worried that her mother's pregnancy will affect her own future?

3. How does Cindy react when Gabi asks her what it felt like to have sex?

4. Why does Gabi decide not to tell Eric, her new boyfriend, about what is going on with her father's struggle with addiction?

5. Why does Gabi start writing letters to her father that she never gives to him?

6. What does Gabi's poem that she shared in class in October reveal about her relationship with her grandfather?

7. Who asks Gabi out after she breaks up with Eric, and how does she feel about it?

8. What does Beto get arrested for?

9. Where does Gabi most want to go to college as she sends her applications out?

10. What does Gabi's poem that she writes about her grandmother and shares in class in November reveal about her grandmother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing how going to shows and performing at The Grind Effect, the coffee shop where Gabi first encounters spoken word poetry performance, influences Gabi's self-esteem and sense of her place in a community of writers and artists.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing and contrasting how Gabi and Beto each approach and process their father's death.

Essay Topic 3

What does Gabi's relationship with Eric, her first real boyfriend, reveal to her about the realities of being in a committed relationship with a boy? Write an essay exploring your answer, paying particular attention to the gap between Gabi's expectations of what having a boyfriend would be like compared to the reality of having Eric as her boyfriend.

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