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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 Freddy’s mother suggest to Dan would be romantic?

2. What is on Doodle’s shirt at the Valentine’s Day dance?

3. What is on the wall above the door of The Door?

4. What appears on the lunchbox Laura examines in Freddy’s room?

5. On which holiday does Freddy note Laura broke up with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Freddy cite for Doodle’s resistance to cell phones?

2. What reason does Doodle cite for not being able to read too much manga?

3. What does Freddy note is the second-hardest part of going through Laura breaking up with her?

4. What are the related circumstances of Freddy’s first kiss?

5. What are the circumstances Doodle relates about her first kiss?

6. What joke inheres in the number of the room where Freddy finds Laura kissing another girl at the Valentine’s Day dance?

7. What does Freddy posit Anna Vice might be when asking for her help initially?

8. How does the Seek-Her prompt Freddy to answer her question about meeting Laura?

9. What features on Freddy’s shower curtain?

10. What boast does Dan make to Erv at the bowling alley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A character early on notes the recent adoption of “for the gods” as a catchphrase (11). Explicate the significance of that catchphrase within the context of the graphic novel.

Essay Topic 2

Consider the impact of the medium—graphic novel—on the story being told. How would the story be obliged to change were it cast in a different medium? Why would it change in those ways?

Essay Topic 3

Freddy remarks that “Every once in a while, I get this thought, like a thread I can feel on my skin. The thought is that I’m just willing what I’m feeling to be true. I’m willing myself to believe this is real” (89). Is she, in fact, doing so? What in the graphic novel indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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