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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 color is Clare's dog?

2. What color plastic chair is Stella sitting in at the police station?

3. What program did Anjali get into at college?

4. Who helps Clare after she gets hit when she tries to stop a fight between Scotty and Aidan?

5. At the end of Stop #12, what does Aidan think he and Clare should do next?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clare realizes about challenges as she waits for Aidan to swim to the weather buoy?

2. Why is Scotty at the jail?

3. How does Clare get injured at Andy's party?

4. Why is Clare a bit alarmed when she sees Stella at the police station?

5. Why does Scotty say that Clare should say he was the one who punched her in the face?

6. Why was going to Scotty's house on Clare's list of things to do the last night with Aidan?

7. What is difficult for Clare to imagine if she and Aidan break up?

8. What does Aidan remember about the first time he and Clare were at the fountain in the village square?

9. Why does Clare use a tree analogy to describe how entwined her life is with Aidan's?

10. In theory, how does Clare think there might be someone better suited to her than Aidan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the Stops, Aidan and Clare get upset and quarrel. What external forces cause Clare and Aidan to feel angry and to quarrel? How do they take out their anger on others?

Essay Topic 2

Aidan and Clare are going to be thousands of miles apart for four years. What are the pros and cons of breaking up or staying together? What decision do they make about their relationship and why?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

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