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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. In Chapter Twenty Five, what does Leah feel like she cannot tell Simon?

2. In Chapter Sixteen, how does Abby feel about the breakup?

3. In Chapter Twenty Five, who drives Leah home?

4. In Chapter Twenty Six, who calls Leah and Simon over to the atrium?

5. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Abby show Leah?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Abby tell Leah she is scared of? What does Leah tell Abby they are?

2. In Chapter Sixteen, how does Abby say she feels about the breakup? Why does she feel this way?

3. In Chapter Twenty One, what does Leah find when she gets home? Why is she upset?

4. In Chapter Twenty Five, what does Simon compliment Leah on? What does Leah want to tell Simon but stops?

5. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Nick ask Leah about Abby? Why does Leah agree?

6. In Chapter Twenty, what does Leah do based on Abby's dare? What does Abby say that offends Leah?

7. In Chapter Fifteen, where does Leah go? Why is the gathering canceled?

8. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Abby say about Morgan? How does she say she feels?

9. In Chapter Twenty Eight, what does Abby reveal to Leah? Why does this make Leah upset?

10. In Chapter Twenty Four, what does Abby ask Leah? What does she say it is about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Leah thinks Abby is perfect in the beginning of the novel. How is Abby really? How does Abby's facade of perfection have to do with racism and outside expectations? How is the way she presents and acts a way to navigate the world? Follow Abby's journey, and then choose two other characters to discuss how appearances in the novel are shown as being highly different than the interior. For each of these characters, look at what outside them makes them put on an exterior that others might not see.

Essay Topic 2

Leah thinks that Abby is perfect in the novel, but actually she has a layer of imperfection and confusion beneath. Leah on the other hand, may not seem perfect on the outside, but is obsessed with perfection beneath, and stops when anything becomes imperfect. How do these two characters, as sides of imperfection and perfectionism, have more in common than one may think at first? How is their perfectionism or imperfectionism different? How does their romance balance the two of them between one another?

Essay Topic 3

Abby tells Leah that she is talented, and that Abby has been afraid of Leah, and worried of how she seems to her. Discuss Leah's perception of self, versus outside of her. Which one do you think is more accurate? What are Leah's blind spots that she does not see about herself, and why does she not see them? What is the novel saying about what we see in ourselves, versus what we see in others?

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