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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 Jen not supposed to mention when she is visiting Megan's great-aunt one day?

2. What is Wallace baking for the first time when Jen arrives at the house for the dinner?

3. When Wallace shows up at Jen's, where does he ask her to take him so that he can find out some news?

4. Whose parents died of a double suicide ten years previously, which may explain a lot about this character?

5. What does Jen use to hit her bed with when she is worried about her father and about the way he's ruined her night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens on the day that Wallace is discharged from the hospital after his surgery?

2. Why is Jen hurt by Kathleen's actions, even though Kathleen still doesn't want to change her plans for the night?

3. What begins to happen to Wallace as he starts his weekly radiation treatments, to which Jen drives him?

4. What does Jen's father begin to do as he begins to feel better after the surgery and is healing well?

5. One morning, about a month after Wallace's surgery, what is the first thought in Jen's mind when she wakes up?

6. What is the worry that Jen has about being at parties, and what a person might ask her when she is there?

7. What do Kathleen and Jen decide to do when Wallace is going to lay down for a nap for a while?

8. Why doesn't Randy go to see his dad when his dad is finally being released from the hospital?

9. What does Jen do when she turns on the radio, trying to work out a new feeling she has about the tumor Wallace has?

10. What does Jen think about the other people in the town that are very paranoid about their lives and their surroundings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jen points out that sometimes things which seem senseless often turn out to be good in the end.

Part 1: Do you think that things in life are ever senseless?

Part 2: Why do you think something senseless might turn out to be good?

Part 3: How do you think a person might be able to make good out of a senseless situation?

Essay Topic 2

Jen doesn't tell Eric about the brain tumor because she thinks it might make him feel obligated to stay.

Part 1: Do you think Jen should have told Eric what was happening?

Part 2: How do you think Eric would have reacted to this news?

Part 3: Why do you think Eric was a person Jen didn't want to tell?

Essay Topic 3

Visiting a loved one in the hospital is not an easy thing, and it can bring up a lot of emotions in people.

Part 1: Why do you think families and people tend to have troubles going to hospitals?

Part 2: Do you think you would have troubles going to see a loved one after surgery?

Part 3: How do you think a family might be able to make the trip to the hospital easier? Or can't they?

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