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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What particular item within the truck upsets Alice the most?
(a) The ignition.
(b) The seatbelt.
(c) The horn.
(d) The trunk.

2. To what location does Julia go after she and Ellie are done with their conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Her father's favorite fishing hole.
(b) The room she shares with Alice.
(c) Max's house.
(d) Ellie's room.

3. When Julia goes to find Ellie and finds her on the porch, in which character's favorite chair is Ellie sitting?
(a) Their father's.
(b) Their mother's.
(c) Cal's.
(d) Julia's.

4. Cal teases Ellie about having written a letter to which celebrity in her youth?
(a) Rick Springfield.
(b) Kurt Cobain.
(c) Boy George.
(d) Sean Astin.

5. In what location does Julia find Max when she goes to his house in Chapter 17?
(a) In the pool.
(b) In the shower.
(c) In the hot tub.
(d) In the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other women does Max claim to have soaked with in his hot tub?

2. What action taken by the media causes Ellie to think that they will soon drop all coverage of Alice's story?

3. In Chapter 21, it is nearing the end of what month?

4. Whose house does Julia take Alice to visit first as they make their Christmastime visits?

5. What new skill does Julia NOT name as one developed by Alice when she gives the press conference in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had been the cause of the break-up between Julia and Philip?

2. Give an example of Alice's newfound expression of her personality.

3. What is revealed to be the reason behind Alice's fear of making noise?

4. To what object does Alice object so strongly that Julia must throw it into the hallway in order to get Alice to calm down?

5. What triumph does Julia report to Max when she goes to visit him in Chapter 17?

6. What knowledge is described as "building in Julia, filling her lungs like a slow-growing case of pneumonia" (203)?

7. What element of the car ride with Alice bothers Alice and what does Julia decide to do about the situation?

8. What hypothesis does Julia form about Alice's early childhood and why does she form it?

9. In what ways does Julia exhibit changes in her demeanor at the same time as Alice makes rapid progress?

10. Compare Alice's feelings about Earl and Myra's house to her feelings about the church.

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