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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. Why does Hazel request that her mate be sober when she signs up for an anonymous hook up?

2. Why is Jasper disappointed when he enters Hazel's father's home?

3. What does Hazel find in the place where Liver's shack used to be?

4. Who is Tiny?

5. What is "Saving You Saved Me"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hazel plan to do with Byron's electronics and why?

2. What do Jasper and Hazel do in her motel room at the end of the story after she finds him waiting for her outside the diner?

3. Why does Hazel come to think that Liver is dead in Chapter 13?

4. Why does Liver blindfold Jasper on the way to Chippy's?

5. Why does Hazel give Liver her father's sex dolls?

6. What do Jasper and Hazel realize they have in common as they drive away from the burial site in Chapter 20?

7. What did Byron do for Hazel when she stopped wanting to have sex with him? Why?

8. As Hazel thinks of her father's coming death, what does Hazel think Byron managed to do rather than kill her himself?

9. What does Hazel's boss, Ms. Cheese, seem to think of Hazel?

10. Why is Jasper at Gogol headquarter in Chapter 15?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Away from the main characters examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story Hazel toys with the idea of suicide and tries to kill herself once. Analyze this aspect of the novel. Discuss why she is depressed and what she hopes to escape from through suicide.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the role of the personification of technology in the novel.

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