Message in a Bottle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Nicholas Sparks (author)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 153 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Message in a Bottle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Nicholas Sparks (author)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 153 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 is Theresa disappointed when searching for Garrett?

2. What do Theresa and Deanna do together with the three messages Theresa found?

3. In Chapter 7, with whom does Garrett have breakfast?

4. How does Theresa get a copy of the letter discussed in the article she found online?

5. What newspaper does Theresa Osborne work for as a columnist?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Theresa make contact with Garrett?

2. Why does Deanna try to convince Theresa to find Garrett?

3. What story did the prologue reveal about messages in bottles?

4. Why did Theresa divorce David and what happened with him afterward?

5. What is Theresa's plan when she arrives in Wilmington?

6. Why is Theresa lonely, the summer she found the bottle?

7. What is Theresa's greatest fear concerning Kevin and David's relationship?

8. What were the two main uses of messages in a bottle throughout the years?

9. What reasons does Theresa have for finding the man who wrote the messages?

10. Where does the letter come from and who determines the location from which it was sent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter One, Theresa is deeply affected when grieving the loss of intimacy and love in her life. Discuss how loneliness is developed throughout the novel and how it contributes to the telling of the story by tracing it through the use of quotes.

Essay Topic 2

"Message in a Bottle" expresses humanity's capacity for love and relationships, but love and life appear simultaneously in the novel, revealing the human condition and human frailty. Discuss the motif of love in "Message in a Bottle," analyzing how love can be both destructive and regenerating.

Essay Topic 3

Setting can deepen the story line and help deepen your characters' traits. In the novel, "A Message in a Bottle," the sailboat acts as one of the settings in the story and is important to many major scenes in the novel. Define setting in your essay and then discuss how it contributes to the story and the character development. What does the sailboat represent in "Message in a Bottle?" Why does the sailboat's destruction have importance in the novel? Provide a few examples from the story to help support your statements.

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